Ukraine agrees on supply of French drones and electronic warfare equipment

27.02.2015 unian.info

A Ukrainian delegation signed an agreement on deliveries of French drones and electronic warfare equipment at one of the world's largest arms exhibitions - IDEX-2015 in the United Arab Emirates, First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleh Hladkovskiy said at a briefing on Friday.

According to Hladkovskiy, an agreement was signed with the French company Thales for the supply of drones and electronic warfare equipment, a correspondent of Ukrainian online newspaper RBK-Ukraine reports.

In addition, Hladkovskiy said that Ukraine had signed agreements worth hundreds of millions of dollars with a large number of weapons importing and exporting countries.

For instance, the Ukrainian manufacturing company Motor-Sich signed an agreement with the South African company to modernize helicopters, he said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Hladkovskiy said that Ukraine has already obtained supplies of lethal weapons from abroad.