Ukraine Raises Alarm Over Foreign Parts in Russian Drones

A damage on a building roof after a Russian drone strike in Sumy, Ukraine.

Photographer: Francisco Richart Barbeira/NurPhoto/Getty Images

Ukrainian authorities are growing frustrated with a surge in foreign components being found in Russian drones, with a senior diplomat calling on allies to tighten sanctions controls as Moscow scales up military production.

Vladyslav Vlasiuk, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s special envoy on sanctions, said the European Union’s sanctions regime is showing cracks as enforcement is carried out by member states rather than the bloc as a whole — even as the Kremlin expands large-scale aerial attacks.