Ukraine already produces part of weapons for NATO countries, this is achievement of Ukrainian diplomacy – experts
Establishing joint military production with NATO countries is an important path to an effective military alliance with them, which has been ensured by the work of Ukrainian diplomats and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, notes Rostyslav Balaban, leading researcher at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnonational Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
"Before the war, Ukraine could conditionally buy under NATO permits, but our military-industrial complex was certainly not allowed to produce – in no case – neither planes, nor engines, nor spare parts. Now, when we already have joint productions, it means that even if these plants are located outside Ukraine, a share of Ukrainian production is present in the military production of NATO countries. This is a hyper-important indicator because this is precisely the stage towards an alliance, a real alliance," Balaban said during a discussion at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.
He emphasized that today Ukraine is de facto a producer of part of the armaments for NATO countries. "And this is a very important indicator provided by our diplomacy, the President of Ukraine and our military, because they are invited as experts. Why is this important for us? Because out of a thousand drones produced for France, a thousand must be produced for Ukraine," Balaban said.
In turn, political expert Serhiy Yahodzinsky noted that over time, the military-industrial complex of many countries will reconfigure to what Ukraine is doing, despite the fact that in 2022 "we had to adapt and retrain our soldiers, and our industrial capacities did not always correspond with what we saw in NATO standards".
