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Charlie Taylor: How war in Ukraine has forced tech firms to pivot

A vibrant tech sector in the Baltics is addressing a challenge to security, as Charlie Taylor discovered in Vilnius

RSI Europe specialises in the development and manufacturing of remote controlled systems for the defence sector. Picture: Getty

For most start-ups, success can be counted in terms of revenues and customer numbers, but Tomas Milasauskas, chief executive of RSI Europe, favours another metric.

“A Ukrainian soldier came up to me weeping and said that our technology had saved his brother’s life. That to me shows that what we are doing is the right thing,” he told the Business Post.

Milasauskas was speaking on the fringes of a conference held in the Lithuanian capital ...