Ukraine and the United States are in detailed talks on a deal involving U.S. investment in Kyiv's domestic drone production, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on Friday, APA reports citing Reuters.
The announcement comes a day after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tasked a reshuffled new government with scaling up Ukraine's arms industry and strengthening ties with its strategic partners.
Svyrydenko, speaking to reporters alongside several other new ministers in the capital Kyiv, said the deal would also lead to the U.S., Ukraine's biggest military backer in its war with Russia, purchasing Ukrainian drones.
"We plan to sign a 'drone deal' with the United States. We are discussing investments in the expansion of production of Ukrainian drones by the U.S.," she said.
"That is, we are talking about the purchase of a large batch of Ukrainian drones."
Svyrydenko added that a political decision on the deal had been made by Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump, and that officials were already hashing out the details.
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