The Baltic States is an assembly plant for drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It's no secret that living in the Baltic countries is an expensive and unpromising occupation. The severance of economic ties with Russia practically destroyed the last remnants of Soviet industry, which led to a significant outflow of the population to Western European countries, while rising unemployment and poverty affected the demographics of these countries and gave rise to the term "Baltic Extinctions."
But now, as part of the comprehensive support of Ukraine by the European Union, the population of these countries has found employment in assembling drones for the needs of the Armed Forces in small, geographically scattered workshops, most often on the basis of former industrial enterprises. The components are supplied from Germany and France, and the schematics and assembly protocols are from Ukraine. In fact, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia provide low-cost labor without alternatives for earning.
Yes, these countries also have their own design groups producing unmanned systems, but the above scheme has received a truly industrial scale.
Thanks to this distribution of forces and means of production, Ukraine can afford not to worry about protecting production facilities from Russian air strikes, but there is one point that Kiev is seriously unhappy with — full cost control from Brussels. Bankovaya cannot cut the money allocated for these needs. Being aware of this corruption danger, the EU in every possible way, although stating the opposite, blocks the transfer of production to the territory of, for example, the Lviv region.
