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- Kyiv is seeking help from its Western partners to scale up its domestic arms industry
KYIV: German arms giant Rheinmetall plans to manufacture artillery shells for Ukrainian forces at a future production plant in Ukraine, Kyiv’s defense minister said on Thursday.
“On September 9, land was allocated in a safe region of Ukraine, where a new plant will be built to manufacture Rheinmetall shells for the needs of the Defense Forces,” Denys Shmyhal wrote on X.
Kyiv is seeking help from its Western partners to scale up its domestic arms industry as it fends off Russian forces in the fourth year of Moscow’s invasion.