Ukraine eyes buying new UAVs from Turkey

Turkey said it won’t back down from planned arms deals with Ukraine

Turkey said it won’t back down from planned arms deals with Ukraine, including the possible sale of additional armed drones that’s drawn a rebuke from Russia, Qazet.az reports citing Bloomberg.

Military cooperation between Ankara and Kyiv is not intended to target Russia and won’t be disrupted in order to please it, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s communications director Fahrettin Altun said.

The remarks set the tone for Erdogan’s visit to Ukraine on Thursday when he is expected to sign sweeping agreements with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, including a free trade deal.