Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that nearly 60% of weapons used by Ukraine's military were domestically produced, already exceeding a target he set two months ago, APA reports citing Reuters.
"During this war, Ukraine has reached the point where nearly 60% of the weapons we have, the weapons in the hands of our soldiers, are Ukrainian-made," Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.
Zelenskyy and other officials have long stressed boosting domestic production of weapons as a key element in ensuring Ukraine's future defence.
In his address, he also pointed to a joint project to undertake weapons production in Denmark.
The president in July called on his reshuffled government to take measures to boost production of weapons made in Ukraine to more than 50%.
He said then that Ukrainian-made weapons made up about 50% of those used at the front and in other operations, higher than at any other time since independence from Soviet rule in 1991.
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