Two Texas-based companies and two with "significant operations" in the state were accused of indirectly supplying technology used in Russian attacks that have injured and killed Ukrainian civilians in five lawsuits filed Wednesday.

The suits allege the defendants failed to prevent Russia and other countries from getting semiconductors and microchips the companies produced or distributed and using them in weapons systems used for attacks during the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.

Mikal Watts, one of the plaintiffs' attorneys, said at a press conference in Dallas Wednesday he spent nine days in Ukraine building the cases.

"We took photographs, we collected evidence, we took video, and the bottom line is each drone comes with the equivalent of a black box that survives the impact,"

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