Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran said today that the shipments of Turkish drones to Ukraine are not military aid, but the result of private arms deals.

Yesterday, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said that it was receiving more Turkish drones.

Ankara - which has maritime borders with Russia and Ukraine and good relations with both sides - criticized the Russian war on Ukraine, but avoided harsh criticism of Moscow, and joined Western countries in imposing sanctions on Russia.

The Turkish Assistant Foreign Minister stated - in an interview with the Turkish newspaper "Sabah" - that Kyiv had bought parades from the Bayraktar Company, a private Turkish defense company, stressing that the deal between the two parties does not represent an agreement between the Ukrainian and Turkish governments.

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The Turkish official added, "It is not about Turkish aid to Ukraine, but (the marches) are Turkish products that I bought from a Turkish company, and of course we are proud of these products."

The Ukrainian defense publishes the Bayraktar strike against the Russian BUK defense system. Just showing and filming this clip and destroying the system is an insult to Russia, because it means that the jamming systems in Bayraktar have exceeded Russian technology.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Kyiv last month, and concluded an agreement with Ukrainian officials for the joint production of Bayraktar TB-2 aircraft in Ukraine, which angered Moscow.

On Wednesday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that his country would receive another shipment of Turkish drones, and on the same day the ministry said that a new batch of Bayraktar planes had arrived in Ukraine, and they are ready for use.

And the Ukrainian news agency reported yesterday, Wednesday, that Bayraktar drones destroyed more than 80 Russian vehicles in the Sumy axis (northeastern Ukraine), close to the border with Russia.

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And on February 27, the commander of the Ukrainian army, Valisi Zaluzhny, said that a Bayraktar drone had destroyed a convoy of Russian forces in the Kherson region, in the far south of Ukraine.

And the French news agency quoted experts that Kyiv owns about 20 Bayraktar planes, which the Turkish president said are the best in the world, and were sold to 15 countries. and Asians.