Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky appealed to a member of the US administration to provide Kiev with access to American military technologies to establish joint arms production. He stated this during his meeting with US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttegieg, who came to Kiev. Video recordings of parts of this meeting were published on the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian president.
“Financial support is very important, but most importantly military support,” Zelensky said.
According to him, Ukraine is “grateful to the United States for taking the lead in providing this assistance.” Zelensky explained that we are talking not only about money, but also about technology.
The Ukrainian leader said, “We will hold a meeting on the joint production of military equipment, weapons and ammunition, which we actually lack.”
He also said that strengthening air defense (air defense) is an important issue for Ukraine. In addition, Zelensky expressed his hope that Ukraine could establish joint production of air defense systems with Western countries.
Before that, Advisor to the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Yuriy Ignat statedIt is stated that Kiev rents air defense equipment from other states during cold weather in the country.
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Source: Gazeta
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