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<strong>Leading Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar is building a production facility in Ukraine, Kyiv&#39;s envoy to Ankara Vasyl Bodnar has said in an interview.</strong></p>
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Calling Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAVs) Bayraktars as &quot;a legend&quot; of its resistance against Russia, Bodnar said that the field of defence technologies remains one of the drivers of Ukraine-Turkey relations.<br />
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&quot;The plant will be built. Just a week ago, the government approved a bilateral agreement and sent it to the parliament for ratification, the agreement on the construction of the plant itself,&quot; the diplomat said in an interview to RBC Ukraine.<br />
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&quot;The owner of the Baikar company created his Ukrainian company in Ukraine, this company has already purchased a plot of land, they have developed the project of the plant itself and intend to implement it to the end, as it was almost a personal commitment of the company owners to make this production in Ukraine,&quot; he added in the <a href="https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/news/posol-turtsii-vasiliy-bodnar-opredelennym-1659869218.html">interview</a>.<br />
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The envoy mentioned that be it engines, spare parts, wheels or other hi-tech material, a significant part of the models that will be produced at this plant will have components of Ukrainian production.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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Last month, the Volodymyr Zelenskyy government said that it will send to the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) a draft law on the ratification of the agreement between Ukraine and Turkey on cooperation in the field of high technologies, aviation and space industries.</p>
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&quot;Among other things, this will make it possible to build a factory in Ukraine for the production and maintenance of the famous Bayraktar drones,&quot; announced Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a <a href="https://www.kmu.gov.ua/news/denys-shmyhal-uriad-napravyt-do-vru-zakonoproekt-pro-ratyfikatsiiu-uhody-z-turechchynoiu-shcho-dozvolyt-vyrobliaty-bairaktar-v-ukraini">meeting</a> of the cabinet ministers on July 19.<br />
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The Turkish Bayraktar TB2 strike drones are a huge favourite with the Ukrainian army ever since an agreement to purchase them was signed between Turkey&#39;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in January 2019.<br />
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The latest attack drones can be armed with modern high-precision missile weapons for the destruction of armoured vehicles, engineering and fortification structures, as well as naval targets, Poroshenko had <a href="https://www.facebook.com/petroporoshenko/posts/1505864876214566">said</a> at the time of the signing of the agreement.&nbsp;</p>
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The Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Bayraktar TB2, which, according to its manufacturer, offers all cutting-edge solutions required to carry out surgical-precision strikes preventing widespread damage to close areas, became a game-changer initially when Russia launched its &#39;Special Military Operation&#39; in Ukraine on February 24.</p>
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&quot;We are very proud, and it is very touching for us to be one of the symbols of this big resistance in Ukraine,&quot; Baykar&#39;s CEO Haluk Bayraktar said in an interview with CNN, last month.<br />
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Recent reports suggest that after Tajikistan showed interest in buying the Bayraktar TB2 drones, the number of countries signing a deal with Baykar&nbsp;reached 19.</p>
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