ukrainian media: zelensky revealed that ukraine is building an underground weapons factory so that it can have weapons for self-defense in the event of a delay in the supply of weapons from the west
2024-09-08
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[global times report] according to reports from the ukrainian independent news agency and other media on the 7th, ukrainian president zelensky revealed during an economic forum in italy that ukraine is building an underground weapons factory and will begin producing weapons in underground facilities so that the ukrainian army can have weapons to defend itself in the event that its western partners delay the supply of weapons.
zelensky, data map, from foreign media
ukraine's independent news agency said that during his participation in the economic forum, zelensky expressed his gratitude to ukraine's allies for providing weapons systems. he also mentioned that many weapons and equipment promised by some allies have not yet been delivered, and once again requested help for ukraine to strengthen its air defense capabilities.
the report said zelensky also said, "we will start producing weapons underground so that the ukrainian army can defend itself even if our partners delay the provision of (weapons)."
according to the ukrainian newspaper kyiv independent, zelensky also said that ukraine has developed new drones and missiles.
recently, as the ukrainian army entered russia to carry out operations, ukraine called on western countries to relax restrictions on the use of weapons provided by the ukrainian army. according to the ukrainian "rbc.ua" news network and other media reports, zelensky made a video speech on august 31 local time, mentioning the attack on the kharkiv region on august 30, saying that ukraine needs to be allowed to use long-range weapons to attack targets in russia in order to "defend ukraine and protect ukrainians." zelensky also called on the united states, britain, france and germany to allow the ukrainian army to use long-range weapons to attack targets in russia.
according to the russian satellite news agency and other media, regarding the question of "whether ukraine is still restricted when using weapons provided by the united states", pentagon spokesman ryder said at a press conference on august 27 local time that the position of prohibiting the ukrainian army from using us-made weapons to strike deep into the russian hinterland has not changed, but "ukraine can use us military assistance to resist cross-border attacks, that is, to fight back." according to the russian "kommersant" newspaper, regarding "some western countries considering allowing ukraine to use missiles and other weapons provided by them to long-range strike targets in russia", russian foreign minister lavrov said on august 27 that "this is playing with fire."
