“Zelensky expects that these days are already finalized with partners on drones”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko reported to me on prose decisions. In particular, there are changes to the budget to guarantee all the necessary payments to our soldiers and native soldiers: there were some details that need a legislative decision. I expect that MPs will support. The government has already prepared an expansion of the contract program 18-24 to attract motivated people to work with drones, ”he said in his video.
Zelensky expects that these days are already finalized with partners on drones.
“Plus 400 million euros for our Ukrainian companies, for our Ukrainian drones manufacturers will go to manufacturers’ accounts in Ukraine during this week. The agreement of Ukraine – the Netherlands. We carry out all the tasks for the production of drones this year and that is how we do it, ”the President added.
In February, the Ministry of Defense reported the launch of the Project “Contract 18-24”, which provides for the conclusion of volunteers aged 18-24 years of annual contract for UAH 1 million. The legislation of Ukraine provides for the mobilization of conscripts aged 25 to 60 years.
In June, at that time, the Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov stated that Ukraine was increasing its own industrial capacity of drone production, and now, according to him, Ukrainian producers reached a level that allows to produce more than four million drones a year.
Before that, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that Ukrainian drone producers have the opportunity to increase production by 40 percent of this year. At the same time, according to him, the opportunities of the Ukrainian budget to finance the production of drones with domestic defense remain limited and do not reach the volume of available production facilities.