Japan breaks into Ukraine’s drone market for first time as Tokyo confronts regional threats

A Tokyo-listed drone firm is breaking with the trend of Japanese companies avoiding Ukraine’s defense industry by partnering with interceptor drone producer Amazing Drones, the first Japanese company to invest in the sector.

The investment — undisclosed in size — will fuel a major production scale-up at Kharkiv-based Amazing Drones, with Terra Drone using its decade-long experience to handle supply chains, marketing, and global expansion, the company said at a launch event in Kyiv on March 31.

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