Ukrainian MP and leader of the European Solidarity party Petro Poroshenko has handed over ten more Ai-Petri counter-reconnaissance systems to Ukrainian military units.

"Today we are delivering TEN Ai-Petri systems to one of the Armed Forces of Ukraine units carrying out critically important tasks. As always, along with the systems we provide a full kit: pickups, electronic warfare systems, generators and EcoFlow units – everything needed for effective operation and crew protection," Poroshenko said on Facebook on Tuesday.

According to him, the Ai-Petri system protects troops from most types of drones and prevents reconnaissance UAVs from directing enemy artillery and ballistic strikes.

"Russian drones are constantly evolving: new equipment, better optics, upgraded communication systems. Today, Kyiv is being attacked not only by Shahed drones and missiles, but also by Lancets. But we are not standing still either. We are continuously upgrading and enhancing the Ai-Petri counter-reconnaissance system so that more enemy drones fall in fields rather than in Ukrainian cities. And I can say: against Lancets, it works one hundred percent," he added.

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As reported, since autumn 2023 Poroshenko has invested more than UAH 200 million in the production of Ai-Petri SV systems, which have successfully passed testing and are already in use by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For a long time, the program did not receive state funding, but in March 2025 Poroshenko announced a contract with the Ministry of Defense for their procurement. On June 29, he reported the start of cooperation with the Ground Forces Command on supplying these systems, adding that production would also continue at his own expense.

In late February 2026, Poroshenko announced the transfer of 15 such systems to Kyiv's defenders.

On March 16, Defense Express reported, citing sources, that a drone that crashed in Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti was a new type of Lancet UAV equipped with artificial intelligence and capable of group attacks and target recognition. The outlet suggested the drones may have been launched from Belarus or Russia.

At the same time, Ukrainian Defense Ministry adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov (call sign "Flash") said that no Russian Lancet-type UAV is physically capable of reaching Kyiv, claiming Russia launched drones without warheads as part of an information operation.

"For this, they are preparing an entire operation with Shaheds and Lancets. The goal is, at any cost, to show residents and the leadership of Russia fragments of a Lancet in Kyiv… To achieve this, they launch around 40 Lancets toward Kyiv… Along with them, Shaheds carrying fragments of Lancets are launched, and in the morning this whole swarm heads toward Kyiv," he said.