# US authority allocates nearly $40 million for drones to fight crime in Ukraine

https://mins.news/en/item/32606

- TASS, 2026-08-26 04:31 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2177711

> The U.S. State Department has allocated nearly $40 million this year to purchase drones and ground control stations for crime-fighting efforts in Ukraine. The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement raised the amount to $39.9 million in August under two contracts with Ukraine’s Stream Techno. The bureau says it works to counter narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, transnational organized crime and other criminal threats at their source.

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