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Turkey will sell more than 20 Bayraktar complexes to Ukraine – Bloomberg

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Ukraine may receive from Turkey more more than 20 Bayraktar unmanned aerial vehicles .

Writes about this the American edition of Bloomberg. The journalists talked to their own sources in the Turkish government and the weapons company Baykar.

& # 8212; The order for at least two dozen more drones continues, people said, asking not to be named due to the sensitivity of the topic.

Also, journalists found out that Turkey sold many more Bayraktar drones to Ukraine than previously reported , and it is planned to conclude new agreements.

According to a high-ranking Turkish official, other agreements between Ukraine and Turkey are currently being developed. In particular, we are talking about the joint production of carrier rockets similar to the Ukrainian Zenit-2 .

The official said that cooperation with Kiev allows Ankara to influence Moscow . The authors of the material also noted that after taking office, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky held at least five meetings with Turkish President Recep Erdogan.

Recently, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov announced that Ukraine is planning to purchase another batch of Bayraktar complexes.

According to him, this will happen in 2022. The drones will be manufactured in Turkey, but they will be Ukrainian.

The Ukrainian military first used Bayraktar in Donbass at the end of October. They were used to destroy enemy artillery shelling the village of Granitnoye.

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