British weapons and military vehicles can be produced in Ukraine. Relevant negotiations, which mean deepening the country's ties with NATO, are ongoing between senior defense industry officials in the UK and Ukraine.. This is reported by the British edition of The Telegraph..

These negotiations are already underway and representatives of Britain have even been to Ukraine. Preliminarily, we are talking about the creation of joint ventures that produce weapons and vehicles under license.. Other European defense companies are also in similar talks with Ukraine, with British companies looking to get ahead of French and German competitors..

Any joint venture will likely require the personal approval of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Moreover, Russia has repeatedly threatened the West with revenge for the supply of weapons to Ukraine, and any support for production could further ignite tensions..

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Downing Street and the Department of Defense declined to comment on the topic, saying it was an industry matter..

Ed Arnold, a researcher at the Royal United Services Institute and a former British Army NATO officer: “Industrial cooperation contributes to tightness in international relations. At first it may be advertised as commercial, but it will need at least tacit political approval.”.

He added that the agreement on military equipment " According to him, such an agreement will bring Ukraine closer to NATO and European security structures that have applied to join the alliance..

James Black, an expert on military procurement at the American security think tank Rand Corporation, said that this agreement, if concluded, would be the first example of such cooperation between a Western country and Ukraine..

He added: “Ukrainian defense industry has been mainly focused on the production and support of Soviet or local technologies, and since independence it has suffered from underinvestment, stalled reforms, problems with corruption and other problems for several decades.”.

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Ukraine has licensed some Israeli and American small arms, such as rifles, and adapted some of its tanks to Israeli electronics..

Independent defense expert Francis Tusa said that any new factories would be key targets for Russian bombing, adding: “The tank factory is not small.. And, frankly, if I am Putin, this will be one of the first places that I will take..

Moscow is likely to perceive agreements to build Western armor as antagonistic, but NATO allies are unlikely to be intimidated by these threats, he added..

“At this point, whatever the West does, the Russians will say it’s a provocation,” Tusa said, adding that the West would likely take a “well, tough” stance..

Ukraine itself wants to create artillery, vehicles and weapons of Western production under license, and not just buy them. This will allow Ukraine to save jobs for tens of thousands of defense workers as it transitions from Russian-made weapons to NATO-standard weapons..

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An adviser to Ukroboronprom publicly announced last week that he wants to conclude agreements with Western companies for the production of Western weapons according to NATO standards domestically.

“In addition to direct participation in joint ventures and a form of cooperation with NATO industry, we can also act as an important tool to replace Russian and Chinese influence in the Middle East, Asia and Africa,” he told defense officials during a seminar organized by the Royal.

The joint production would help end Kyiv's dependence on handouts from the West, the newspaper notes, and reduce concerns that the West will not be able to increase production enough to replenish its own arsenals and continue to supply Ukraine..

Ukraine is an experienced weapons manufacturer in its own right. During the Soviet era, it was a center of high-tech military production, and Dnipro is known as the "

Recall, Rishi Sunak promised to send more military aid to Ukraine after the visit of President Volodymyr Zelensky to London, including long-range missiles. However, what kind of missiles are still unknown..