President Volodymyr Zelensky said China has stopped selling drones to Ukraine and Western countries while continuing to supply them to Russia, Bloomberg reported on May 29.
You can still get the engines, batteries, controller boards, cameras, transceivers, gyro sensors, propellers, screws, cables, … from china without problem. You just need to do the assembly yourself. I guess that’s no loss because most probably Ukraine wants to mod the drones for their military needs anyway. So in reality that’s barely news, the only effect I can imagine might be a slight annoyance for volunteer units and self-organized donations. They now can’t use off-the-shelf DJI drones but have to go for brands that do the final assembly outside of china.
You can still get the engines, batteries, controller boards, cameras, transceivers, gyro sensors, propellers, screws, cables, … from china without problem. You just need to do the assembly yourself. I guess that’s no loss because most probably Ukraine wants to mod the drones for their military needs anyway. So in reality that’s barely news, the only effect I can imagine might be a slight annoyance for volunteer units and self-organized donations. They now can’t use off-the-shelf DJI drones but have to go for brands that do the final assembly outside of china.