from breakfastmtn@piefed.ca to world@lemmy.world on 07 Mar 17:49
https://piefed.ca/c/world/p/575964/ukraine-offers-drone-know-how-for-gulf-cash-and-us-air-defenses
Kyiv hopes that the knowledge it has gained fighting Russia will give it both money and leverage with Donald Trump.
Ukrainian officials are in talks with rich Gulf countries, peddling their country’s hard-won anti-drone expertise against Iranian attacks in exchange for crucial cash for Kyiv’s defense industry.
Polite American officials are also talking to Ukrainians on sharing their drone tech — something that may at least temporarily boost Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leverage with the White House.
Both negotiations could offer Ukraine desperately needed help: money at a time when the EU’s promised €90 billion loan has stalled thanks to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s veto, and American interceptors for Ukraine’s Patriot air defense systems to knock down Russian ballistic missiles.
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