Ukrainian analysts find flight controls from British tech firm Raspberry Pi guiding Russia's new jet-powered attack drones despite sanctions

Kyiv's intelligence analysts traced the flight-control components inside Russia's Geran-4 and Geran-5 jet-powered drones to Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi, revealing the firm's microcomputers are among "the most crucial parts" of Moscow's most advanced attack aircraft. Ukraine's Sanctions Commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said the parts reached Russian defence firms via third-party companies deliberately used to evade Western sanctions. Raspberry Pi said it was "disappointed" and "deplores these illegal trades," insisting it applies "the strictest of measures" to prevent diversion.

Russia's Alabuga plant in Tatarstan churns out around 4,000 of the jet-powered drones, and other components were traced to the US, Germany, Switzerland and China.

The week before the discovery, a Russian drone hit a platform at Dnipro station, killing at least 14 people and seriously wounding 14 more.