Ukraine, Lithuania agree on joint production of drones for Ukrainian Armed Forces - Kuleba

Ukraine, Lithuania agree on joint production of drones for Ukrainian Armed Forces - Kuleba

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Defining joint steps to increase the production of drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces was the key topic of talks between the Ukrainian and Lithuanian foreign ministers.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said this at a joint press conference with his Lithuanian counterpart Gabrielius Landsbergis in Kyiv on Saturday, January 27, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"We devoted a large part of our conversation to defining joint steps to increase the production of drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Lithuania has the technology, and we can scale up production. This was a key topic. There is a clear understanding of what, how and when to do, so that Ukrainian-Lithuanian cooperation in drone production could give the maximum result in the shortest time," Kuleba said.

He added that a "classic" agenda had also been discussed during the negotiations with his Lithuanian colleague - Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO.

"We have common approaches here, and Lithuania, as a member of both institutions, is helping us as much as possible on the way to membership in them," Kuleba said.

According to him, the topic of the negotiations was also the issue of frozen Russian assets, sanctions and "everything that needs effective solutions."

"We have common hopeful expectations from the upcoming meeting of the European Council on February 1. There is progress regarding the opening of the European Peace Facility, which has been blocked for a long time due to the position of individual EU members. We are working to unblock it, and there are encouraging steps in this direction," the minister said.

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Landsbergis arrived in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on January 25.

On January 26, he visited the Kharkiv region, where a shelter will be built at the expense of the Baltic country.

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