Author: Mike Nova

“I had a very good phone call with the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. I hope that we will have a productive bilateral meeting where we will speak about all sorts of things. We did a lot with Keir, and we need to carry on, open a new chapter in our relations. For example, the Drone Deal. I want to build a big factory in Britain based on new technologies, share them with our partners. We are ready to share all our experience with the UK. I hope that the UK will do the same. We need to make this Drone Deal very strong. When we meet, I will be talking not only about our needs, but also about how we see our bilateral relations in the future. What we can do together to strengthen both Ukraine and the UK.

There are three things that are very important to create something new. You need funding. You need technologies that Ukraine and the UK have. Ukraine has good missiles, but we see that the UK’s Storm Shadows are strong, and we want to produce them or something similar. The UK wants to have such drones as we have, including sea drones. We are open to this. Next, training. The UK helped us with this, and we are ready – with all our experience – to share with the UK what it might need. Then, for example, the UK doesn’t have anti-ballistic air defense. We need to build our European anti-ballistic system. We can work together.”