NATO Summit Gave Ukraine An Opportunity To Launch A Number Of Projects
- 28.06.2025, 13:15
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Experts clarified the details.
In the final communiqué of the last NATO summit - unlike last year's - Ukraine was mentioned only once. But instead of a lot of buzzwords, the alliance gave the green light to many joint Ukrainian-European defense projects, writes err.ee.
The European allies have taken a creative approach to Donald Trump's demand to raise defense spending by alliance members to 5 percent of GDP - given their commitment to protecting Ukraine.
"You can invest in Ukraine's defense industry and record that investment as an expenditure within NATO. In my view, this is an extremely important and effective arrangement. I didn't even believe it. I did not believe that Trump would agree with it," the head of the Center for New Geopolitical Studies Mikhailo Samus told "Actual Camera".
"This summit has actually given Ukraine the opportunity to launch a number of projects with various NATO member states, which are extremely important for the prospects of the European defense industry complex as well. We see various joint projects for the production of drones and other weapons that have so far worked in Ukraine, but which can now work in Europe as well," said security expert Rainer Sachs.
"The capabilities of our military-industrial complex are estimated at $35 billion, but it is only $15 billion loaded. We are interested in deploying production abroad. Now these enterprises will produce weapons to meet the needs of Ukraine, but sooner or later there will be a surplus, which will go to the European armies. And if there is a ceasefire, such a country will already have on its territory the production of weapons that have demonstrated their effectiveness on the battlefield," said the executive director of the Center for Security and Cooperation Dmitro Zhmaylo.
Another important issue is Ukraine's dependence on U.S. Patriot air defense systems. Donald Trump has not promised them to Ukraine, but he has not ruled out the possibility of their delivery.
"They talked to the Americans about it, and as far as I know, they got a polite answer that yes, it is possible. But when exactly it will be possible to buy something, whether it will be only Patriot or something else - this is apparently a matter of bilateral agreements, about which they prefer not to spread especially," Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said.
"The question is not whether Ukraine will receive any air defense systems from the United States, but rather the obsolete systems that Israel has stopped using and must hand them over to the United States for modernization and subsequent use in Ukraine," Sachs said.
"I don't think we will be given all 25 systems that the president talked about. We need that many to really cover our territory. But we will still get a few systems, purely for the protection of civilian infrastructure," Zhmaylo said.
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