Business Maverick: Star Wars actor Mark Hamill’s campaign sends 500 drones to Ukraine

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Luke Skywalker is leading an army of drones to war. It reads like the synopsis of the next instalment in the Star Wars franchise, but it’s happening in real life. Hamill, who played the Jedi character in George Lucas’s original Star Wars trilogy that ...

“Very simply: Ukraine needs drones. They define war outcomes, they protect their land, their people, they monitor the border, they’re eyes in the sky,” Hamill said in an interview with Joe Mathieu on Bloomberg Radio’s Sound On. “I was really shocked because they give me these updates at least two or three times a week about what’s going on and they said they’ve received over 500 drones since I started this.

Meanwhile, the US, France and the UK have called for a special United Nations Security Council briefing regarding evidence that Russia has procured Iranian drones for its war on Ukraine. Drones have been deployed in recent Russian attacks on power plants and other installations across Ukraine. About 30% of the country’s power stations have been destroyed since 10 October, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday.

 

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Zelensky sounding more and more like CyrilRamaphosa ! I want and want and want!

Except Russia gets to offload their drones all over Ukranian territory while Ukraine cannot do the same to Russia cause it might 'upset' Putin. See how sick our Society has become that we are scared of Monsters that do evil? Then they end up doing worse evil cos we scared.🤬👿

He's still acting.....but now the result of his career is death

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