>BRUSSELS — NATO is developing a 10-year plan to rebuild the Ukrainian defense industry, with the first meeting between the alliance and Kyiv slated for next week.
>The meeting will be the start of a long process hinted at for weeks by U.S. and NATO officials of a long-term commitment to Ukraine to bring it closer to the alliance in both training and equipment.
>“We will be looking at defense planning requirements to get Ukraine fully interoperable with NATO,” said a senior NATO official who asked not to be named due to ground rules for speaking to reporters during alliance meetings in Brussels this week. “It’s about shifting away from Soviet equipment … to NATO-compatible Western equipment.”
Submitted 16 October 2022, 05:30 GMT+2
Ukraine’s future is pretty clear. Whether it lose or win, it is gonna become something similar to South Korea. Intensive militarization with an economy revolved around heavy industry.
I’m glad my tax money is going everywhere except to my local community
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Filed by Politico’s Paul McLeary, 12 October 2022, 14:22 GMT+2.
[Excerpt](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/12/pentagon-chief-ukraine-support-00061387):
>BRUSSELS — NATO is developing a 10-year plan to rebuild the Ukrainian defense industry, with the first meeting between the alliance and Kyiv slated for next week.
>The meeting will be the start of a long process hinted at for weeks by U.S. and NATO officials of a long-term commitment to Ukraine to bring it closer to the alliance in both training and equipment.
>“We will be looking at defense planning requirements to get Ukraine fully interoperable with NATO,” said a senior NATO official who asked not to be named due to ground rules for speaking to reporters during alliance meetings in Brussels this week. “It’s about shifting away from Soviet equipment … to NATO-compatible Western equipment.”
Submitted 16 October 2022, 05:30 GMT+2
Ukraine’s future is pretty clear. Whether it lose or win, it is gonna become something similar to South Korea. Intensive militarization with an economy revolved around heavy industry.
I’m glad my tax money is going everywhere except to my local community