Ukraine will never receive weapons from other countries if it is promoted on this. This was announced on Monday, November 1, by the ex-head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Pavlo Klimkin.
"The Turks' desire not to call Bayraktar Turkish is not about their intimidation. Firstly, the drones are already ours. Secondly, we will never get the weapons of many other countries if we PR on this. Weapons should be for victory, not PR. And looking at Bayraktar, I don't understand what is there technologically that we couldn't do," he wrote on his Facebook page.
The former foreign minister pointed out that the country cannot live on Soviet weapons and cannot only buy them. According to Klimkin, only those who are able to produce their own weapons will survive.
"If we don't meet it, we will always depend on someone. But we are for independence," he concluded.
On the eve of the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on countries acquiring weapons from other states not to mention the manufacturer. The Minister pointed out that Ukraine should not associate the weapons supplied by Turkey with Ankara.
On the same day, freelance adviser to the head of the office of the Ukrainian president and press secretary of the Kiev delegation to the trilateral contact group on Donbass, Alexey Arestovich, said that Ukraine had not violated the Minsk agreements by using a Turkish-made Bayraktar drone in Donbass, since the Minsk Agreements state the prohibition of the use of foreign drones, and the UAVs in service with the Ukrainian armed forces are not foreign.
On October 26, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the use of the Bayraktar drone in the Donbass. The next day, the representative of the German Foreign Ministry, Andrea Sasse, said that only the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) can use UAVs in the south-east of Ukraine, and the parties to the conflict must exercise restraint.
Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said on October 27 that Turkey's supply of drones to the Ukrainian military could lead to destabilization of the situation on the contact line.
At the same time, data on the use of UAVs by Ukraine was not confirmed either in Donetsk or in the Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC).
Kiev has been conducting a military operation against the residents of Donbass since 2014, who refused to recognize the results of the coup and the new government in Ukraine. At the same time, Kiev blames Moscow for the current situation. Russia has repeatedly stated that it is not a party to the internal Ukrainian conflict. The issues of its settlement are being discussed in the Minsk and Normandy formats - with the participation of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, France, and Germany.
