Ukraine agrees on location for Bayraktar service centre

Head of the Main Department of Defence Lands and Funds of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, Colonel Borys Zakutnii has said that the Ministry of Defence has agreed with investors and stakeholders on the location of the centre for maintenance, ongoing repair, modernisation, training of personnel related to the operation of Bayraktar.

"Recently, we held a number of meetings with investors and all interested parties, during which the location of the centre was agreed upon and a road map project was developed regarding the transfer of the land plot to use and the settlement of issues regarding further joint use of the airfield," Zakutnii said in an interview with ArmiyaInform, Censor.NET reports.

The creation of the Bayraktar centre is provided for by the memorandum between the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and the Bayraktar Savunma company, which the parties signed in September 2021. The centre will also train personnel who will work with these UAVs. It was planned that a number of such centres would be built and operated in Ukraine.

The next stage will be the launch of Ukrainian-Turkish UAV production. Baykar plans to invest its own funds in the construction of a factory for the production of drones in Ukraine, where Ukrainian specialists will work.

Despite the war, Bayraktar maintains plans to build a plant in Ukraine. The project is not frozen, it is in the process of negotiating formal agreements.