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Zelenskyy: Drone Deals Can Include Sharing Air-Defense Experience
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on September 25 that Ukraine's Drone Deal agreements with partners can extend beyond equipment transfers to include sharing air-defense experience and deploying specialists.
He made the comments while speaking with journalists on September 25. The question concerned whether Ukraine might send units to NATO member states amid the threat of Russian hybrid and drone attacks.
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"We have offered our help to various countries," Zelenskyy stated, adding that priority goes to nations already assisting Ukraine during the war.
He noted that partner governments are aware of that assistance.
Zelenskyy explained that the bilateral Drone Deal format applies regardless of NATO membership, since eligibility depends on partnership rather than alliance status.
He described the agreements as covering drone and missile sales, co-production, and the exchange of operational experience.
The Ukrainian leader did not indicate that Kyiv would deploy units to NATO territory, framing the cooperation instead around shared expertise.
He pointed to recent hybrid and drone attacks against Moldova, which belongs to neither NATO nor the European Union.
Similar incidents, he told journalists, have also targeted Germany and Romania. Zelenskyy emphasized that such attacks are not limited to NATO members, calling it part of a broader pattern of Russian hybrid warfare.
He cited Ukraine's earlier deployment of specialists to the Middle East as an example of that exchange. Those specialists, he added, helped protect critical facilities in the region.
Zelenskyy described the initiative as an ongoing framework that continues to expand to new partner countries.
The Drone Deal framework Zelenskyy referenced has expanded rapidly since its introduction. Ukraine had signed long-term Drone Deal agreements with nine countries by early August, with another fifteen under negotiation.
Separate deals had already been concluded with the European Union, alongside a bilateral framework with the US covering drone technology cooperation.
Under the format, Ukrainian teams assess a partner's air-defense needs before proposing solutions drawn from Ukraine's wartime experience, with agreements structured to run for at least a decade.
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