Aircraft

Bars

Ukrainian jet drone built to strike Russia and now also used to hunt jet-powered Shahed drones.

Description source: euromaidanpress.com

Connections

Zelenskyy says one destroyed one in testing (not independently confirmed)ShahedSource
Zelenskyy says operations were halted by a restriction onStarshieldSource

Coverage

Photograph from the en.interfax.com.ua report

Collected 29 October 2026

Zelenskyy says Starshield restrictions halted Bars interceptors

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a European country had funded 2,000 Bars interceptor drones and that one destroyed a Shahed in testing before a Starshield restriction halted operations.

en.interfax.com.ua