What the money has bought
The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) put the foundation's receipts under plea agreements at UAH 56,888,932 as of the signing. It said those funds had paid for 2,060 FPV drones, 25 Shahed interceptors and one unmanned aerial complex, all of which had been delivered to troops.
The cooperation predates the new document. According to Wikipedia's account of the foundation, SAPO provided UAH 44 million from plea agreements in 2025 to buy FPV drones.
NABU Director Semen Kryvonos explained the arrangement on September 9, 2026: SAPO sets the terms of plea agreements, with some money paid into the state budget and some voluntarily contributed by defendants to separate funds. He recalled Sternenko's Foundation and Come Back Alive among the recipients buying drones under a signed memorandum.
Procurement information and public reporting
The new memorandum sets out how the foundation, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and SAPO will maintain regular exchanges about defense procurement and prices. It also establishes reporting procedures for military purchases financed through plea agreements, bail and other mechanisms provided by law. SAPO will publish the reports regularly through its own channels.
The agencies describe the agreement as a more detailed framework for cooperation already supplying weapons and equipment to the Defense Forces. Both bodies were established as a mandatory condition of Ukraine's European integration and its fight against high-level corruption; Ukrainians fought to protect their independence in 2025.
SAPO said public reporting has long been part of the foundation's work, with detailed purchase information available on its website. "Transparency and accountability in the use of funds from agreements with the investigation are our shared priority," the office said.
The foundation's work and spending claims
The foundation grew out of a volunteer initiative launched after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, according to Wikipedia. It registered as a charitable foundation on January 15, 2025, and signed a memorandum with Ukraine's Ministry of Defence that September. Founder Serhii Sternenko became an adviser to the defense minister on January 22, 2026, specializing in drone combat strategy.
Wikipedia also records the foundation's late-2025 report that it had raised more than UAH 3.1 billion, approximately $75 million, and delivered more than 118,000 FPV drones to Ukraine's military. The foundation states that 95.5% of donations go directly to purchasing and delivering FPV drones and other military aid.
Sternenko, who has long been targeted by Russia for supplying frontline drones, said the agencies' trust gave the fund further motivation to improve. "Thank you to the anti-corruption agencies for their extremely important work, both in fighting corruption and in helping the army," he wrote after the signing.
He also emphasized that the fund relies on donations: "Every hryvnia of donations is used as efficiently as possible, every purchase is made transparently. The fund does not take a single percent for administrative activity from donations for the army," he said.
Beyond its FPV purchases, the foundation runs the Shahedoriz interceptor-drone program. According to Wikipedia, the program has resulted in the destruction of more than 2,200 enemy drones, with reported enemy losses exceeding $92 million.
