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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 4 July 2014 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | National |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | drone; unmanned reconnaissance aircraft; drones |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| Outlet | Kyiv Post |
| Title | From boots to drones, a crowd-funded army |
| Dateline | 4 July 2014 — Oksana Grytsenko |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://archive.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/from-boots-to-drones-a-crowd-funded-army-354591.html |
| Archive URL | https://archive.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/from-boots-to-drones-a-crowd-funded-army-354591.html |
| Dedup key | 2014-07-04|kyivpost|narodniy-crowd-funded-recon-drone-donetsk |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Staff writer Oksana Grytsenko reported that the first people's drone — an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft crowd-funded by Ukrainians and assembled by volunteer IT specialists — had gone on a mission in Donetsk Oblast the previous week. David Arakhamia, head of a Kyiv IT company, said the drone cost $35,000 donated via narodniy.org.ua. A ready-made Israeli drone would have cost $165,000 and a U.S. one $120,000; activists had a frame built and the Zhytomyr Military Institute filled it with equipment, volunteers working free. The group planned 20 more drones with Kyiv Polytechnic University. The same volunteer network had raised more than Hr 1 million for 287 Mykolayiv paratroopers after Arakhamia visited poorly equipped troops at Chonhar.

**Kinematic object.** Volunteer-built unmanned reconnaissance aircraft (about $35,000) flown in Donetsk Oblast.

**Coverage frame.** military

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: Named Kyiv Post staff writer with original interviews of the volunteer builder and related aid groups.
- Wire reprint status: Not a wire reprint.
- What was excluded: Later Ukroboronprom state tests (October 2014) and post-2022 production scale.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Kestrel / Lab. Improvised reconnaissance UAS funded and built outside the formal defence-industrial base.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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