Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday they would work together to boost defence cooperation, including on drone production, after talks in Rome.
No concrete details were announced however, with Zelensky saying teams from the two countries would work on the details.
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“Today we have discussed at length how to strengthen our cooperation in the field of defence,” Meloni told reporters.
“Italy in particular is very interested in developing joint production, especially in the area of drones, a sector in which we know very well that Ukraine has in recent years become a leading nation.”
Zelensky had on Tuesday visited Berlin, where he and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced a strategic partnership centred on defence, and drones.
The Middle East war has given Kyiv a chance to showcase its drone expertise developed over more than four years of war with Russia, with Zelensky dispatching specialists and visiting countries targeted by attacks from Iran, a Russian ally.
“Ukraine has developed a special format of security agreement, which we call the Drone Deal format,” Zelensky said Wednesday.
“Our expertise, military experience, and our defensive capabilities in the fields of drones, missiles, electronic warfare, and data exchange -- we are proposing to bring all of this together with the capabilities of our partners, so that we support each other,” he explained, through an Italian interpreter.
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