The Ukrainian End-User Record
End-User Certificate · Foreign Military Financing Beneficiary · Undelivered Hardware
Ukraine's armed forces are the end user of record for the Cyberlux K8 drone contract. The End User Certificate — signed by Colonel Oleksandr Yevgenovych Pavlenko at the Logistics Hub in Rzeszow, Poland on August 13, 2022, and by Commander Andriy Valeriyovych Mazalenko on August 15, 2022 — established Ukraine's formal certification as the intended recipient of the drone platform under U.S. State Department export authority.
What this profile says up front
The intended beneficiary that did not receive what was promised — and is not at the table
Ukraine's armed forces are the end user of record for the Cyberlux K8 drone contract. The End User Certificate — signed by Colonel Oleksandr Yevgenovych Pavlenko at the Logistics Hub in Rzeszow, Poland on August 13, 2022, and by Commander Andriy Valeriyovych Mazalenko on August 15, 2022 — established Ukraine's formal certification as the intended recipient of the drone platform under U.S. State Department export authority.
The certification covered 500 FlightEye K8 UAVs with Armor Piercing (AP) Munition Encasement and 500 with HE Dual Purpose (HEDP) Munition Encasement — both classified under USML Category VIII(a)(5). The total certified value: $38,704,000. The advance payment received by Cyberlux on September 8, 2023 was $38,700,600. The figures are nearly identical.
This profile does not make findings about Ukrainian government officials or attribute any misconduct to Ukraine. It documents the end-user record: what was certified, what was contracted, what was delivered, and what happened to the money. Ukraine is conspicuously absent from the interpleader proceedings — the forum where the disposition of the FMF funds is being decided.
The numbers that frame the profile
What the record establishes
The End User Certificate: signatories, scope, and value
The End User Certificate was signed on August 13, 2022 by Colonel Oleksandr Yevgenovych Pavlenko, Commander of the Logistics Hub in Rzeszow, Poland, Command of the Logistics Forces, MoD Ukraine. Commander Andriy Valeriyovych Mazalenko, MoD Ukraine, signed on August 15, 2022. The EUC covers 500 K8 UAVs with AP Munition Encasement ($20,254,000 USD) and 500 K8 UAVs with HEDP Munition Encasement ($18,450,000 USD), totalling $38,704,000. The K8 is classified as USML Category VIII(a)(5). The applicant on the certificate is Cyberlux Corporation; Mark D. Schmidt signed as CEO.
The EUC value and the advance payment: near-identical figures
The EUC total certified value is $38,704,000. The HII advance payment received by Cyberlux on September 8, 2023 was $38,700,600 — a difference of $3,400. The coincidence of these figures is documented in the public record. The advance was drawn from FMF appropriations. The EUC was the authorising document for the export. Whether the EUC value was the basis for the advance payment structure is not established in any public filing, but the figures are materially identical.
The price gap: $4,700 production cost vs. $38,704 EUC implied value
In March 2022 — five months before the EUC was signed — Schmidt stated in a Signal communication that the all-in cost of a K8 drone was $4,700: materials, labour, electronics, and packaging. The EUC implies a per-unit value of $38,704 ($38,704,000 / 1,000 units). The gap is $33,004 per drone. The EUC was signed by Ukrainian military officers certifying to the U.S. Department of State that the articles described are as stated. No public filing explains the relationship between the $4,700 production cost and the $38,704 certified value.
Deputy Minister Sharapov's September 2022 formal request
In September 2022, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defence Denis Sharapov sent a formal letter to U.S. Department of Defense, State Department, and U.S. European Command (EUCOM) officials, describing successful testing of the Cyberlux drone platform and requesting 1,000 aircraft with pilot training and maintenance support. This letter elevated the transaction from a commercial discussion into the formal channels of government procurement and security assistance — and preceded the HII subcontract award by approximately eleven months.
What Ukraine actually received: 392 drones, DD-250 record
The U.S. government formally accepted 392 K8 drones under DD-250 records — valued at $14,954,400. The remaining 1,608 units credited to Cyberlux in the Modification 4 settlement have been classified in interpleader filings as: 37 accepted by HII only (not the government); 745 not factory-acceptance-tested; 526 incomplete or built after the Stop Work Order; 300 for which assembly had not started. Upon information and belief, the undelivered hardware is warehoused at Naval Station Crane, Indiana. Ukraine received 392 drones under a certified commitment for 1,000 — and the operational status of even those 392 is not established in the U.S. court record.
Ukraine's absence from the interpleader proceedings
Ukraine — the intended beneficiary of the FMF appropriation and the end user of record — is not a party to the E.D. Va. interpleader proceedings. The $23.74M in the court registry is the residue of a congressional appropriation for Ukraine's security assistance. The competing claimants — commission intermediaries, a litigation finance firm, judgment creditors — are all domestic private parties. No Ukrainian government communication about the undelivered drones appears in any U.S. court filing reviewed for this brief.