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France ramps up weapons production for Ukraine
Updated On: 19 January, 2024 06:44 AM IST | Paris | Agencies
“The logic of ceding materiel taken from the armies’ stocks is reaching its end,” the minister, Sebastien Lecornu, said. “From now on, the solution is to directly connect French defense industries with the Ukrainian army.”
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Ukrainian rescuers working in a residential building damaged after Russian strikes in Kharkiv. Pic/AP
French manufacturers have reduced the manufacturing times for some of the weapons systems they supply to Ukraine by half or more, as France increasingly switches away from its previous policy of dipping into its own military stocks to support the war effort against Russia’s invasion, France’s defense minister said in an interview published Thursday.
“The logic of ceding materiel taken from the armies’ stocks is reaching its end,” the minister, Sebastien Lecornu, said. “From now on, the solution is to directly connect French defense industries with the Ukrainian army.”
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