Turkish drone giant Baykar has already purchased a plot of land in Ukraine for the production of Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV).

Thus, according to foreign media, Telegrafi reports, the ambassador of Ukraine in Turkey, Vasyl Bodnar, announced.

Recently, as Daily Sabah points out, the government approved a bilateral agreement on the construction of the Bayraktar plant in Ukraine and sent it to parliament for ratification.

And Bodnar confirmed this in an interview with the Ukrainian news agency RBC Ukraine, this medium writes.

Baykar has already bought a plot of land in Ukraine, developed the plant project itself and is ready to implement it to the end, the ambassador was quoted as saying.

"And it (the commitment to start building a factory in Ukraine) is not only political, but also practical, since a significant part of the models that will be produced in this factory will have components of Ukrainian production," Bodnar said. .

Ukrainian-made engines, wheels or other spare parts can be used in the production of such drones, according to the ambassador.

"Despite the war, our companies continue to fulfill their obligations", he said, although not as they were before the war.

Baykar also previously said it will establish joint training and maintenance centers for Turkish UCAVs in Ukraine.

The TB2, which has also been used in conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Karabakh, now leads Turkey's global defense export push.

Ukraine has purchased more than 20 armed Bayraktar TB2 drones from Baykar in recent years and ordered 16 more on January 27.

They were delivered at the beginning of March.

The TB2 has been extremely popular in Ukraine, where it helped destroy Russian artillery systems and armored vehicles.

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