Ukraine and Germany have expanded their defence cooperation with a new agreement focused on developing and sharing military technologies, signed during a visit by German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to Kyiv.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov and Boris Pistorius signed a Letter of Intent between their ministries on cooperation in defence innovation. The signing took place on Monday in Kyiv, as Pistorius arrived for talks on strengthening industrial and military ties.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis is a very important visit for us. We will spend the day discussing a large number of issues that are critical for the defence of our country and for our cooperation,\u201d Fedorov said at a briefing alongside Pistorius. He added that Germany has become Ukraine\u2019s \u201cnumber one country in terms of security assistance,\u201d providing roughly one-third of all international military support.<\/p>\n
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Fedorov thanked Berlin and Pistorius personally for what he called \u201cthe quality of support,\u201d especially in air defence. He pointed to German funding for Patriot missiles and recalled a major contract signed in April for several hundred additional interceptors.<\/p>\n
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\u201cNext year we will start receiving these missiles. This is an unprecedented support package for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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He also highlighted Germany\u2019s role in supplying air defence during critical moments of Russian strikes.<\/p>\n
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\u201cEach missile was priceless for us,\u201d Fedorov said, referring to emergency deliveries of PAC-class interceptors during attacks on Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n
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Beyond air defence, the ministers discussed wider cooperation in defence technology. Fedorov noted that Ukraine and Germany are already working on data-sharing initiatives that allow analysis of battlefield performance of systems such as PzH 2000, RCH 155 and IRIS-T, using Ukrainian combat data systems like DELTA.<\/p>\n
He also confirmed that preparatory work has begun on a proposed joint drone agreement with Germany, as well as future deliveries of IRIS-T launchers and PAC-class missiles to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s air defence over the coming years.<\/p>\n
According to Fedorov, Germany is also beginning to finance Ukrainian medium- and long-range strike drones, which he described as essential for \u201cdeep-strike capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine and Germany have expanded their defence cooperation with a new agreement focused on developing and sharing military…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-12053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-germany"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}