{"id":9796,"date":"2026-04-22T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/9796\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:50:16","slug":"zelenskyy-discusses-air-defence-strengthening-and-safe-programme-with-spains-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/9796\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy discusses air defence strengthening and SAFE programme with Spain&#8217;s defence minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, together with Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles, have discussed bilateral defence cooperation, including joint weapons production and military support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/prezident-obgovoriv-iz-ministerkoyu-oboroni-ispaniyi-posilen-104037\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Office of the President of Ukraine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Office of the President of Ukraine&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Office of the President of Ukraine<\/a>, as reported by European Pravda<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Details: Among the topics discussed were agreements on cooperation between Ukrainian and Spanish defence industry companies, which were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2026\/03\/18\/8026098\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:signed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;signed&quot;}\" class=\"link \">signed<\/a> during Zelenskyy&#8217;s visit to Spain last month. Zelenskyy expressed hope that the implementation of these agreements would begin in the near future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We are, of course, interested in co-producing cutting-edge technologies with Spain. Our team visited Spain regarding our radar agreements \u2013 we are eagerly awaiting their delivery to Ukraine and want to test them in real combat conditions,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zelenskyy emphasised that Ukraine is also counting on the expansion of the SAFE programme, under which Kyiv receives US-made weapons purchased by NATO countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zelenskyy also thanked Spain for supporting Ukraine&#8217;s air defence, particularly with missiles for Hawk and Patriot systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the meeting, Zelenskyy presented the Spanish minister with the Order of Princess Olha, Third Class, for her significant contribution to strengthening bilateral cooperation and supporting Ukraine&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Support Ukrainska Pravda on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Patreon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Patreon&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Patreon<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, together with Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles, have discussed bilateral defence cooperation, including joint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6230,1222,17,6228,6227,6229],"class_list":{"0":"post-9796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-air-defence","9":"tag-margarita-robles","10":"tag-spain","11":"tag-ukrainian-president","12":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","13":"tag-weapons-production"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}