On 12 August, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence launched the second phase of the “Basic Supply Level” project: units holding defensive lines and conducting active combat operations will receive guaranteed monthly deliveries of ground robotic systems and heavy middle-strike drones.
The first phase of the project launched in late June 2026 and covered the minimum needs of troops for radio-linked and fibre-optic FPV drones, Mavics, bombers, reconnaissance wings, and light middle-strike drones. The nomenclature is now being expanded — and, according to Deputy Minister of Defence Mstyslav Banik, this makes practical military sense. Units will receive nearly all types of ground robotic systems and “heavy” middle-strike drones capable of striking targets at operational depth, in guaranteed quantities adjusted for the intensity of fighting on each specific section of the front.
The distribution logic differs for the two categories of equipment. Logistical and combat ground robotic systems, including kamikaze robots, will go directly to units of the Armed Forces, the National Guard, and the State Border Guard Service holding the front line. Heavy middle-strike drones, however, will first be transferred to the level of army corps, which will then distribute the equipment among crews who have completed training and are effectively employing such systems. The Ministry of Defence’s intent is to guarantee that each corps has its own means of striking at operational depth.
According to the Ministry of Defence, since the beginning of the year the Defence Procurement Agency has contracted more than 22,000 ground robotic systems for the Defence Forces — all contracted systems are of Ukrainian manufacture and are primarily intended for logistics purposes. This is twice as many as during all of 2025. The industry has also grown considerably in terms of scale: according to Brave1 Director General Andrii Hrytseniuk, Ukraine currently has nearly 300 companies producing around 550 varieties of ground robotic systems.