The Netherlands allocated 200 million euros to strengthen the Ukrainian anti -Lék abilities, according to the Dutch Minister of Defense Ruben Brelelmans.
“We will spend it on the drone systems that can shoot down drones in Ukraine, an urgent need for which we have seen again last night,” Brelelmans said during a telephone interview from Ukraine. “There were large air strikes overnight, which had a significant impact because they largely focus on local energy infrastructure.”
Ukraine is working on strengthening its air defense when Russia intensifies drone attacks on a nationwide level. With winter settings, Moscow’s strength focuses on a key energy infrastructure, including a strike at the beginning of this week, which deactivated more than half of the production of Ukraine.
Anti-drone support is part of the defensive agreement concluded with the Dutch, which also includes a memorandum of understanding of co-production of drones that President Volodymyr Zlenskiy called “one of the promising areas of our two-sided cooperation”.
“Dutch and Ukrainian companies can increase production together, for example by establishing common enterprises,” Brelelmans said. While the intention is to produce together in the Netherlands for Ukraine, due to their urgent need, the same production lines for Dutch armed forces could be used in the future.
Ukraine has a similar arrangement with Denmark, which has established a co -production facility that currently serves Ukrainian needs, but can later be redirected to supply Danish forces. The United Kingdom announced its own agreement on co -production Drone earlier on Friday, called Project “Chowopus”.
Brelelmans sees a number of advantages of such investment in drone technology, because in this way “the Netherlands naturally learn more about these systems and establish contacts with developers and manufacturers”. He called it a necessity, given that “the whole involvement of NATO needs more” these systems against the drop in the next few years.
“It’s a way to bring lessons from Ukraine to the Netherlands.” He added.
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