Ukraine’s state arms producer, Ukroboronprom, announced Wednesday it was launching joint artillery shell production with an unnamed NATO country, a step that reflects the alliance’s deepening cooperation with Kyiv.
Ukroboronprom said it began producing 120-mm mortar rounds with a NATO member, which it declined to identify. The company’s spokeswoman, Natalia Sad, said the joint production was just the first step in NATO-Ukraine cooperation on arms production.
“The emergence of this shell is the first product of our joint cooperation with a country from the (NATO) alliance. It will not end with shells, we will soon show you other products produced with partner countries,” Sad said. “This is the onward movement and integration into cooperative chains with the North Atlantic alliance.”
The announcement came a few days after The Telegraph reported that British defense industry executives recently visited Ukraine to discuss producing British weapons inside the country. But Sad said the NATO country involved in the artillery shell production is in central Europe, ruling out the UK as a possibility.
The Telegraph report said arms makers in other countries were looking to produce weapons inside Ukraine, including companies in France and Germany. Any factories producing NATO weapons would be targets for the Russian military. Sad said that 10 Ukroboronprom employees have been killed while working during the war as Russia has targeted weapons production and storage sites.
I wouldn’t be too happy to live near that plant.
Still gotta get the materiel to the front. Good luck with that.
Another joke from the drag queen Zelensky.
UK is doing something better than that! It rounded up male Ukrainians of military age (up to 65) and forced them into training. All the gushing expressions of patriotism are emanating from the selected sods for press — clearly mouting of obligatiry statements on defense of “Motherland”. Ukrainians are in tough spot — they cannot say anything out of fear of being deported. But what did they expect? A Slavic soul out of a country that all the way up to nineteen century enslaved their own citizens by paying press gangs to catch people so that navy can have enough bidies to man ships.
Ukrainians in UK have just bern subject to impressment, arbitrary and unlawful treatment of refugees or any other person on Ukrainian passport.
This is an unprecedented cruelty — yet the Western propaganda machinr is prtraying this as “patriotism”. They are being trained. and will be shipped to Ukraine. Those are breadwinners, and their families will fall into penury and on welfare. UK is sincerely hoping some break the law — to be expelled to Ukraine.
Ukraine is running out of soldiers, and West has the answer. Lucky are the ones that fled to Russia,
This is actually a sensible thing to do. Much much more impactful than 200 tanks. Assuming that they get a good amount of production going in a month or two.
They waited too long to start this. Should have started last September.
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