American drone supplier on Ukraine faced problems due to Chinese sanctions

China's retaliatory sanctions against the United States led to the fact that the American manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles Skydio, which supplies drones to Ukraine, faced a shortage of essential components that it had previously received from China. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Financial Times (FT) newspaper.

"The American corporation, the largest manufacturer of drones in the United States, supplying them to the Ukrainian military, faced a crisis in the supply chain after Beijing imposed sanctions, including a ban on Chinese groups supplying critical components to it," the newspaper writes.

The newspaper notes that the sanctions took the American corporation by surprise. And now she is urgently trying to find alternative suppliers, including those producing batteries.

According to the statement of the company itself, which supplies products to corporate and government customers, including the US Army, it sent to Ukraine has more than 1 thousand drones, including the latest X10 model, "for intelligence gathering."