Meanwhile, Ukrainian drone manufacturers are meeting Romanian defence ministry and army officials in Bucharest this week to discuss potential joint production under a new European Union rearmament funding mechanism, the ministry said in a statement quoted by Reuters.
View image in fullscreenRomanian defence minister Radu-Dinel Miruță speaks during a press conference in Berlin, Germany. Photograph: Christian Mang/ReutersRomania, an EU and Nato state, shares a 650-km land border with Ukraine and has had drones breach its airspace and fragments fall on its territory repeatedly since Russia began attacking Kyiv’s ports located across the Danube from Romania.
Reuters noted that the EU has allotted Romania €16.6bn under its new rearmament initiative SAFE, which will begin later this year, and defence minister Radu Miruță said the country wanted to spend 200 million euros for joint drone production.
Fifteen Ukrainian companies will continue discussing the project in Bucharest in the coming days, he added.
