Ukrainian miltech startups continue to pitch business ideas in a joint YouTube project of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Innovation Development Fund, the Cabinet of Startups of Ukraine. In a new episode, three more startups presented their developments to Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov and co-founder and managing…
The Polish Armaments Group (PGZ) has signed a deal to co-manufacture Korean K2 tanks and K9 howitzers. The deal, an offset of the Polish Defence Ministry’s purchase of 672 K9 units and 1,000 K2 tanks from Korea, was sealed with their respective Korean manufacturers, Hanwha Aerospace and Hyundai Rotem Company. The tanks will be produced…
The Government has adopted a resolution that will speed up and simplify the import of military goods to the maximum extent possible. In particular, the import of UAVs and components to the territory of Ukraine. This will allow the defenders to receive and use technology at the front more quickly. The document was developed jointly…
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland signed a joint agreement to depend on security cooperation and establish a new platform that spans the four countries. Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Reinsalu (Isamaa) and his counterparts co-signed the document in Riga, Lavia on January 31. “It lays the foundation for a cooperation platform of the four countries,…
Poland’s plan to spend as much as 4% of its GDP on defence this year may be the most ambitious among all NATO member states, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has said. The Prime Minister and the defence minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, visited the 18th Mechanised Division in Siedlce, eastern Poland, on January 30. Morawiecki…
After Germany, the US and other Western allies finally approved tank shipments to Ukraine, the country battling Russian invasion has now set its eyes on modern fighter jets, a wish supported by the Baltic States. According to Politico, which interviewed several Western military officials and diplomats, conversation about supplying Ukraine with fighter jets is already…
The Baltic foreign ministers have urged Germany to provide tanks to Ukraine, with Lithuania’s top diplomat claiming Berlin has a “special responsibility”. “We, the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Foreign Ministers, call on Germany to provide Leopard tanks to Ukraine now,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis tweeted on January 21. “This is needed to stop Russian…