Ukraine’s weapons factories aren’t banking on peace

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1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

   Less than an hour’s drive from downtown Kyiv, a cluster of sleek black modular buildings with metal roofs and dark-tinted glass stand in an open field. No one will ever live in them – this is a new training facility for [Ukrainian soldiers.](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/14/why-divided-ukrainians-are-refusing-to-fight-for-zelensky/)

   The muffled cracks of suppressed gunfire pierce through the August afternoon air, days before [Vladimir Putin meets Donald Trump in Alaska](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/08/13/trump-to-present-minerals-deal-to-putin-in-alaska/) 5,000 miles away. Here, despite mounting international hopes for a ceasefire, Ukraine is preparing for the future and a [long war with Russia.](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/08/11/brutal-logic-ukraine-war-threatens-crush-trump-dream-peace/)

   “There have been so many of these meetings, we don’t pay attention anymore,” says one elite fighter, scouting the grounds for future training sessions with his team.

   Behind every soldier at the range stands an army of workers in factories, keeping the war supplied. In drone factories across Ukraine, no one is holding their breath for a breakthrough at Friday’s meeting.

   Even if a ceasefire is reached, [few believe Putin wants lasting peac](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/08/14/fiona-hill-its-a-mistake-for-trump-to-meet-putin-alone/)e. Many see the country’s rapidly expanding defence industry as Ukraine’s most reliable security guarantee.

   “If you want peace, be prepared for war,” says Aleksey Dudkin, a representative from TerMIT, a Ukrainian drone company supplying unmanned ground drones to the Ukrainian military. “Nobody is stopping; we are even increasing the amount of production.”

   This year, the Ukrainian government ordered 10,000 ground drones – 2,000 to be made by TerMIT – for logistics, medical evacuations, and, increasingly, direct assaults on Russian positions.

   **Full story:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/14/ukraine-defence-industry-prepares-long-war/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/14/ukraine-defence-industry-prepares-long-war/)

2. Yea if they ever want peace they indeed better be armed to the teeth

   Even then Russia might just take the leap because the society doesn’t seem to run on much more than the idea of Russian grandeur

3. The only way to achieve peace with a neighbor like Russia is to be armed to the teeth.

4. Ukraine lives in the real world…while “Day One” Donald lives in an illusion that he can bring peace.

   Слава Україні!

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