On July 9, the first foreign representative office of JSC Ukroboronprom was opened in Washington. Its main task is to strengthen cooperation between Ukraine and the United States in the defence industry. In particular, it is aimed at interaction with local businesses and expert organisations, cooperation with government agencies and defence organisations, and support of…
The Baltic States will present a capability development plan at this week’s NATO summit in Washington, D.C., the Lithuanian and Estonian presidents have said. They have also called for the necessary military capabilities to be assigned to the regional defence plans approved at the NATO summit in Vilnius last year. “Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have…
On July 2, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted amendments to the Resolution No. 256 dated March 24, 2023 providing for improvements to the procurement procedure for unmanned systems. The State Special Communications Service will be able to procure domestically produced UAVs through the Prozoro e-procurement system. Sensitive information about the contractors of state…
Poland has suggested to Lithuania to jointly acquire Polish Piorun air defence systems, according to a statement released by Lithuanian and Polish Defence Ministers Laurynas Kasciunas and Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz in Vilnius on July 3. “We are very pleased with Poland’s offer to join the purchase of the Piorun short-range mobile air defence systems. As you…
The US will lend Poland a further $2 billion (8.1 billion zloty) to fund the purchase of American air and missile defence systems, the Polish Defence Ministry has announced. The agreement, which marks the second such loan to Poland under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) programme following one in September last year, is “an expression…
In a letter to the European Union (EU) president, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia called on the EU to build a defence line along the border with Russia and Belarus to protect the EU from military threats and other harmful actions, stressing that the project, which would protect the 27 countries’ 450 million citizens, would…
The Ukrainian company A3Tech-Ukraine, which carries out large-scale assembly and partial production of Croatian DOK-ING vehicles, has received a certificate of conformity for the MV-10 heavy demining vehicle. The company has an order for the production of eight such vehicles. The first one, manufactured with funds raised under the UNITED24 initiative, has already been delivered…