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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The UK and Latvia are spearheading a "capability coalition" to provide Ukraine with up to a million battlefield drones to bolster its war efforts.
The scale-up of drone supply will provide Ukrainian forces with better situational awareness to target "enemy positions, armoured vehicles, and ships with explosive ordnance," the statement said.
"On land and at sea we’ve seen the impact drones are having in Ukraine," the UK's defence minister Grant Schapps said on social media platform X.
At a press conference in December, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced an ambitious plans to produce 1 million drones in 2024.
Also at the ministerial meeting, 13 NATO allies – among them France, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey – are expected to sign an agreement on procuring new munitions and missiles.
While EU countries have committed to providing Ukraine with the military prowess it needs to win the war, governments have struggled to ensure the defence industry can meet demands without depleting European stockpiles.
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