Report says Western defence cooperation with Ukraine is stalled
Ukrainian and foreign partners have formed at least 180 business-to-business defence partnerships.
A King’s College London report says regulatory delays in Ukraine and rigid approaches in Western militaries are slowing joint weapons production and weakening defence cooperation. The report says 22 percent of 180 Ukrainian-foreign business partnerships are stalled.
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The Centre for Statecraft and National Security report concluded that regulatory problems in Kyiv and institutional thinking in European militaries are delaying joint weapons production.
“Mundane regulatory problems in Kyiv and unimaginative institutional thinking in Europe’s militaries are holding up joint weapons production.”
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Ukrainian and foreign partners have formed at least 180 business-to-business defence partnerships.
“That formula has led to at least 180 business-to-business partnerships between Ukrainian and foreign partners”
- 22%
Ukrainian and foreign defence partnerships that are stalled
“22 percent of them are stalled”