“With regard to Bayraktar Akinci, this matter is currently under consideration,” the businessman said.
“We have permits from our government for this, which demonstrates how close we are to implementation,” TASS quoted him as saying.
At the first International Defense Industries Forum in Kyiv on September 29, Bayraktar announced plans to complete the construction of a Bayraktar drone plant in Ukraine within the next 18 months. According to him, the company is investing a total of some $100 mn in Ukraine. Apart from building a plant, the Turkish manufacturing firm will spend the funds on a service center and its main office in Ukraine, he explained.
In August 2022, plans to build a Bayraktar drone plant in Ukraine were revealed. Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasily Bodnar said that the construction would take several months and that production could be launched before late 2023. However, the Ukrainian envoy said later that some adjustments were made to the original plan.
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