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基辅——乌克兰最重要的武器制造商戴着不对称耳环，身着黑色针织连衣裙。
“当老板的好处是可以自己定着装要求，”34岁的伊琳娜·捷列赫笑着说道，她在公司最新设计的模型旁落座。她是乌克兰最大无人机制造商之一“火点”的首席执行官。
凭借高跟鞋、灿烂笑容以及由千禧一代助手和高管组成的随行团队，捷列赫在工厂里格外显眼。工厂里，成群的中年男性搬运无人机零件、操作电动工具且频频抽烟。但在俄罗斯2022年2月发动入侵后被迫重塑自我的乌克兰，她绝非特例。
“全面入侵开始后，许多人都不得不重新审视自己能产生什么样的个人影响，”她说，“你永远不知道自己的哪些知识和经验可以转化、调整为新的用途。”
伊琳娜·捷列赫，“火点”34岁首席执行官
捷列赫的专业背景是设计与管理。
她在乌克兰北部城市伊尔潘接受了建筑师培训，在打造露台和户外家具的同时，还创办了一家成功的高性能混凝土公司。
2022年初的几个月里，俄罗斯军队占领了伊尔潘，摧毁了该市约70%的建筑。
2022年5月26日，乌克兰基辅北郊伊尔潘，俄罗斯空袭造成的被毁建筑。纳塔查·皮萨连科/美联社
“我深刻认识到我们在敌人彻底野蛮的行径面前有多脆弱，”捷列赫对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，“如果我能拿出任何能力为这场战争出力，那我就必须这么做。”
逃离俄军占领区后，捷列赫开始寻找报效国家的途径。2022年秋，俄罗斯开始用伊朗制造的远程“天竺葵”自爆无人机袭击乌克兰城市，还开始生产本国版本，即“格伦”无人机。
捷列赫和战前曾与她合作设计户外城市空间的乌克兰商人丹尼斯·希捷尔曼决定，打造本国的远程攻击无人机，帮助乌克兰反击。
希捷尔曼拥有国防工程背景，但团队最初的其他多数成员，包括捷列赫，都来自民用领域。第三位联合创始人叶霍尔·斯卡利哈曾是电影制片人。
初创时，该公司计划每月生产20架FP-1型无人机。到2024年，这些无人机已被频繁用于袭击俄罗斯机场、弹药库和炼油厂。但在过去两年里，公司的雄心及其武器库都得到了扩充。
“火点”如今每天生产300至400架远程攻击无人机，并在生产线中加入了更先进的武器。
今年6月，“火点”的一枚巡航导弹完成了超过1000英里的任务，捷列赫称这是作战历史上巡航导弹实现的最远射程打击。
捷列赫还大胆宣称，2026年乌克兰对俄罗斯境内的纵深打击次数是俄罗斯对乌克兰打击次数的两倍——其中60%的乌克兰袭击使用了“火点”的武器。
2026年8月16日，俄罗斯莫斯科州科列季诺，乌克兰无人机袭击后，一家Wildberries仓库起火，民众在现场行走。特约记者/路透社
她表示，公司距离部署乌克兰首款自主设计和制造的弹道导弹仅剩数月时间。与低空飞行的巡航导弹不同，弹道导弹沿弧线轨迹飞行，高度更高，更难被拦截。
“火点”是众多乌克兰初创企业之一，这些企业帮助乌克兰从单纯的军事援助接收国转变为国防技术创新的驱动力。
许多其他企业也有着类似的、出人意料的起步故事。开发通信和导航技术并获得美国投资的“Sine工程”公司创始人，战前曾经营一家站立式办公桌制造企业。为无人机开发自主制导系统的“第四法则”公司创始人雅罗斯拉夫·日尼亚克，此前还创立了获美国商业孵化器Y Combinator投资的宠物科技初创公司Petcube。
捷列赫认为，这些企业的创始人拥有国防领域之外的多元背景，且都具备转向新领域的能力，这是他们成功的关键。
“这种模式在乌克兰行得通，因为我们的官僚主义极低，因为我们能与军方直接沟通，还因为我们的企业反应迅速，”她说。
该国国防制造和采购的创新模式也引起了盟友的关注。
2025年，美国军方宣布了一项仿制伊朗“天竺葵”无人机的项目，名为“卢卡斯”，并于今年2月在中东部署了首批相对廉价的远程无人机。
美国和乌克兰政府预计很快将签署一项新的防务协议，扩大乌克兰军事技术对美出口，并与美国企业开展合资项目。
捷列赫表示，“火点”的首要目标仍是保卫乌克兰，但她欢迎有朝一日能在更广泛的西方新安全架构中发挥作用。
“我们需要确保乌克兰不再仅仅是世界的粮仓，”她谈及该国长期以来的主要出口谷物时说道，“如今我们有了更具价值的东西可以提供，而国防工业正是实现这一目标的强大驱动力。”
Millennial woman designing Ukraine’s own ballistic missile says it will soon put Moscow in reach
September 8, 2026 / 9:13 AM EDT / CBS News
Kyiv — Ukraine’s most important weapons manufacturer wears mismatched earrings and a black knit dress.
“The good thing about being the boss is that you get to set the dress code,” Iryna Terekh, the 34-year-old CEO of Fire Point, one of Ukraine’s largest drone makers, told CBS News, grinning as she took a seat next to a model of one of the company’s latest designs.
With her high heels, bright smile, and entourage of millennial assistants and executives, Terekh stands out in her factory, where throngs of middle-aged men lug drone parts, wield power tools and chain-smoke cigarettes. But she is hardly an exception in a country forced to reinvent itself since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022.
“When the full-scale invasion started, a lot of people had to review what could be their personal impact,” she said. “You never really know what kind of knowledge and what kind of experience could be transformed and pivoted into something new.”
Iryna Terekh, the 34-year-old CEO of Fire Point Fire Point
Terekh’s experience was in design and management.
Trained as an architect in the northern Ukrainian city of Irpin, she started building patios and outdoor furniture while also developing a successful high-performance concrete company.
In the early months of 2022, Russian forces occupied Irpin, destroying roughly 70% of the city.
Buildings destroyed or damaged by Russian strikes are seen in Irpin, on the northern outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, May 26, 2022. Natacha Pisarenko/AP
“I understood how vulnerable we are to the complete barbarian behavior of our enemy,” Terekh told CBS News. “And if there are any competences that I could put on the table for the sake of fighting this war, then I have to do this.”
After escaping Russian occupation, Terekh began looking for a way to help. In the fall of 2022, Russia started attacking Ukrainian cities with Iranian-made, long-range Shahed exploding drones. It also started manufacturing its own versions, known as Gerans.
Terekh and Ukrainian businessman Denys Shtilerman, whom she had worked with designing outdoor urban spaces before the war, decided to build their own long-range attack drones to help Ukraine strike back.
Shtilerman had a background in defense engineering, but most other initial members of the team, including Terekh, came from civilian backgrounds. Yehor Skalyha, their third co-founder, was a film producer.
At first, the company aimed to build 20 of its FP-1 drones per month. By 2024, they were regularly being used to strike Russian airfields, ammunition depots and oil refineries. But over the last two years, the company’s ambitions, and its arsenal, have grown.
Fire Point now makes 300 to 400 long-range attack drones per day, and it has added more advanced weapons to its production lines.
In June, a Fire Point cruise missile completed a mission of over 1,000 miles, which she claimed as the longest-range strike ever carried out by a cruise missile in combat history.
Terekh also made the bold claim that Ukraine has launched twice as many deep strikes into Russia as Russia has into Ukraine in 2026 — with 60% of the Ukrainian attacks using Fire Point weapons.
People walk in front of a burning Wildberries warehouse following a Ukrainian drone attack in Koledino, in the Moscow Region of Russia, Aug. 16, 2026. Stringer/REUTERS
She said her company is now just months away from deploying Ukraine’s first domestically designed and manufactured ballistic missile. Unlike cruise missiles, which stay lower to the ground, ballistic missiles follow an arc trajectory that takes them much higher, making them harder to intercept.
Fire Point is among many Ukrainian startups that have helped to shift the country from being solely a recipient of military aid to an engine of defense technology innovation.
Many other companies have similar, unlikely stories of their beginnings. The founder of Sine Engineering, which has attracted American investment in its communications and navigation technology, ran a business making standing desks before the war. Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of the Fourth Law, which makes autonomous guidance systems for drones, previously founded Petcube, a pet tech startup backed by the American business accelerator Y Combinator.
Terekh believes these companies, with their founders’ diverse backgrounds outside the defense sector and their shared ability to pivot to new endeavors, have been key to their successes.
“This works in Ukraine because we have very low bureaucracy, because we have direct communication with the army, and because we have companies that react,” she said.
The country’s innovative approach to defense manufacturing and procurement has also attracted the attention of its allies.
In 2025, the U.S. military announced its own program to copy Iran’s Shahed drones, known as “LUCAS,” which deployed its first relatively cheap long-range drones in the Middle East in February.
The U.S. and Ukrainian governments are expected to sign a new defense agreement soon that would expand Ukrainian military technology exports to the U.S. and joint ventures with American companies.
Terekh said Fire Point’s primary focus remains on Ukraine’s defense, but she welcomed the idea of one day playing a role in a new, wider Western security architecture.
“We need to ensure that Ukraine will stop just being a breadbasket for the world,” she said, referring to the country’s longtime primary export of grains. “Now we have something to offer which is much more valuable, and the defense industry is a huge driver for this.”
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