Ukraine to set up arms export offices in Berlin, Copenhagen, Zelenskiy says

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine will set up offices for arms exports and joint weapons production in Berlin and Copenhagen this year, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday.

Kyiv is scaling up its burgeoning domestic defense industry with help from its Western partners as it fends off Russian forces in its fourth year of war with Moscow.

Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, Zelenskiy said naval drones and artillery systems were among the weapons that Kyiv would be able to export.

“This is (about) co-production and export…of the weapons that we can allow ourselves to sell, in order to have more money for our internal production of deficit items for which we don’t have the money,” he said.

Ukraine is still reliant on its allies for weapons like fighter jets and air-defence systems, but has made