Ambassador of Ukraine to Finland Mykhailo Vydoinyk met Esa Rautalinko, President & CEO of Patria Finnish company – Chair of the Board of the Finnish Defence and Aerospace Industries (PIA), and discussed prospects of cooperation between Ukrainian and Finnish defence industry companies.
Ukraine needs more modern weapons, localisation of production on the Ukrainian territory, provision of materials, components and technologies to produce Ukrainian weapons to protect itself against ongoing Russian attacks. The Patria President confirmed plans to intensify the development of mutually beneficial cooperation with Ukraine.
Further ways of interaction were outlined to maximize the use of Finnish defence industry capabilities to meet Ukrainian defence needs at the bilateral and multilateral (EU, NATO, Nordic etc.) levels.