“There is no such thing that now we are selling (UAV. -
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) when there is tension with Russia.
There were agreements on the party, which they talked about from the very beginning, "TASS quotes him.
According to Demir, Kiev had a number of production and investment projects and the sale of Turkish drones is not connected with "recent events."
"There should not be an opinion that Turkey is sending UAVs to Ukraine because of the tension (with Russia. -
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)," he stressed.
As Bloomberg reported earlier, citing sources in Turkish government and military-industrial circles, Ankara is preparing another supply of Bayraktar-TB2 strike drones for Kiev in the amount of at least 20 pieces.