Ukraine signed a memorandum to establish joint training and maintenance centers for Turkish armed drones on Wednesday, a statement on President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s website said.
Ukraine has previously bought the drones from the Turkish defense technology company Baykar to bolster its armed forces.
Baykar has sold its Bayraktar TB2 armed drone to Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Qatar and Libya. Canada scrapped export permits for drone technology to Turkey in April, after concluding that the equipment was used by Azerbaijani forces fighting Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh).
“We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. This is an important event for us,” Zelenskiy said after the signing of the memorandum with Baykar.
The memorandum was a step towards joint Ukrainian-Turkish production of the drones, the statement said.
