Bayraktar in Ukraine. The government prepared a draft law to allow UAV manufacturing in Ukraine

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will file to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law allowing to build a facility for Bayraktar manufacturing and maintenance in Ukraine.

The press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine reported about this.

The draft law regards to the ratification of the agreement between Ukraine and Turkey on cooperation in the field of high technologies, aviation and space industries.

“Among other things, this will allow us building a factory in Ukraine for the production and maintenance of the far-famed Bayraktar UCAVs,” the Prime Minister of Ukraine noted.

The draft law is not yet available on the website of the Verkhovna Rada.

The agreement between the governments of Ukraine and Turkey was signed by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov and the Minister of Industry and Technology of Turkey Mustafa Varank at the beginning of February 2022.

This agreement should promote Ukrainian-Turkish cooperation in the development, production and operation of Bayraktar UAVs.

“The document defines the conditions of cooperation, aimed at ensuring the effective use of the production and scientific and technical potential of the parties, and the obligations of the parties”, reported on the website of the Office of the President.

It is noted that the agreement provides for the participation of Ukrainian specialists in the process of working on unmanned aerial vehicles.

As previously reported, against the background of general fundraising for the purchase of Bayraktar for Ukraine in Lithuania, Poland and Norway, another fundraising was announced in Canada.