{"id":1273525,"date":"2025-12-20T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1273525"},"modified":"2025-12-19T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:22:10","slug":"zelenskyy-and-tusk-discuss-strengthening-ukrainian-air-force-and-joint-drone-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-and-tusk-discuss-strengthening-ukrainian-air-force-and-joint-drone-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy and Tusk Discuss Strengthening Ukrainian Air Force and Joint Drone Production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ukrainian President <strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong> met with <strong>Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk<\/strong> to discuss strengthening <strong>Ukraine\u2019s combat aviation<\/strong> and defense projects under the <strong>SAFE program<\/strong>, including <strong>joint production of drones<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UATV English<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelenskyy wrote on Facebook:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe paid special attention to economic cooperation, joint infrastructure projects, as well as strengthening Ukrainian combat aviation and defense projects within the SAFE program, in particular joint production of drones and interceptors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The President expressed gratitude to Poland for its <strong>continuous support of Ukraine since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe feel and appreciate this,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion also covered <strong>diplomatic contacts with the United States to achieve a just peace<\/strong>, Europe\u2019s role in the process, and the EU Council\u2019s decision to provide <strong>\u20ac90 billion in financial support to Ukraine for 2026\u20132027<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI am grateful to the Prime Minister and Poland for their firm support of this decision,\u201d Zelenskyy concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1273529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1273525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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