Top officials from NATO, the United States and Ukraine attend a meeting in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, October 12, 2022. © AP / Olivier Matthys
Politico: NATO sets sights on rebuilding Ukraine’s defense industry
“It's about shifting away from Soviet equipment," one NATO official said.
BRUSSELS — NATO is developing a 10-year plan to rebuild the Ukrainian defense industry, with the first meeting between the alliance and Kyiv slated for next week.
The meeting will be the start of a long process hinted at for weeks by U.S. and NATO officials of a long-term commitment to Ukraine to bring it closer to the alliance in both training and equipment.
“We will be looking at defense planning requirements to get Ukraine fully interoperable with NATO,” said a senior NATO official who asked not to be named due to ground rules for speaking to reporters during alliance meetings in Brussels this week. “It’s about shifting away from Soviet equipment … to NATO-compatible Western equipment.”
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