– in the summer we will sign relevant contracts regarding the beginning of the export of our technologies abroad and opening production lines in European countries, and maybe not only; In those countries that help and finance drone production and begin financing for rocket production in Ukraine-said President Volodymyr Zelanski in an interview with journalists, which is quoted on Saturday by the Interfax-Ukraina agency.
He revealed that the number one country is dishes, but the positive talks on his subject are conducted with: Norway, Germany, Great Britain and Lithuania.
The president said that already Four companies in his country produce devices for capturing Russian dronesof which two have serious successes in this respect. Germany and Canada are involved in financing their production – he added.
$ 43 billion financing
The head of the Ukrainian state announced that this year the Ukrainian defense and industrial sector received $ 43 billion from partners. financing. He said that the government in Kiev would like that foreign allies allocate 0.25 percent of their GDP for this purpose.
-Ukraine is part of Europe's security and we would like to be released for our defense and industrial sector for internal production, 0.25 percent of GDP of one or another partner state-he emphasized.
In an interview with journalists, which took place on Friday, Zelanski referred, among others to plans to participate in the NATO summit and a possible meeting with US President Donald Trump. He said that their teams were working on organizing such conversations.
– My trip [na szczyt NATO] It does not depend on whether there will be a meeting with Trump – he emphasized.
Exchange of bodies of soldiers with Russia
The president also spoke, among others On exchanges of the bodies of soldiers with Russia, emphasizing that Ukraine received the remains of 20 Russian soldiers, which were given as Ukrainian. – during repatriation [ciał] It was noted that The bodies of 20 people who were given to us as our fallen soldiers are the Russians. There is also, for example, a mercenary from Israel who fought on their side. With Israeli documents, although we were told that they were only Ukrainians and only military men – said Zelnski.
The exchange of prisoners of war and bodies of fallen soldiers was agreed during the second round of Ukrainian-Russian negotiations on June 2 in Istanbul. The parties that talked there through the Turkish authorities established the exchange of all seriously ill prisoners of war and be less than 25 years old, and Replacement of the bodies of soldiers in the formula of 6,000 For 6,000
On Monday, the authorities in Kiev announced the end of the repatriation process of fallen bodies. As a result, Ukraine received 6,000 57 remains of soldiers that were stored in Russia or in the areas of Ukraine.
Machines for Russia, incl. from Germany, the Czech Republic and the USA
Zełenski also told journalists that Ukraine gave partners information about companies that provide to Russia tools used to produce weapons.
– The Russian Federation receives machine tools from some countries – machines that are used in the production of armaments. In the near future they plan to obtain 860 more machine tools for their defense and industrial sector. Importantly, these machines provide 52 companies from China, 15 companies from Taiwan, 13 from Germany, eight from the Czech Republic, six from South Korea, three from Japan, three from India and one company from the USA It provides a small amount of components – he said.
According to him, the names of these companies are known. Ukraine provided all this information to partners – both the EU and the USA – with a request to impose sanctions on these enterprises.
– What can these companies do if they are afraid of sanctions? Since modern machine tools provided by global companies operate using remote electronics, it is important that these companies can turn them off remotely – and then these machines will stop working. This is a real slowdown in production. That is, that A way to disarm Russia without the use of weapons – A very important element – emphasized the President of Ukraine.
He added that the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service provided this information to 26 countries.
