“Ukraine, under the force of fighting a war of national survival, has been developing a very agile, highly motivated and distributed defence industry, which is far ahead in terms of adaptation to current needs [compared with] some of its Western European counterparts, including the UK,”

Keir Giles · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-24

Giles told Al Jazeera that Ukraine is likely to have good capacity for producing sophisticated weapon systems once it has the blueprints.