Turkey Says Russian Anger Won’t Stop Arms Sales to Ukraine
- Remarks come as Erdogan visits Kyiv to sign trade agreement
- Russia troop build-up has left NATO fearing attack on Ukraine
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Turkey said it won’t back down from clinching new defense deals with Ukraine, signing an agreement for the joint production of Turkish drones that have drawn Russia’s ire.
Military cooperation between Ankara and Kyiv isn’t intended to target Russia and won’t be disrupted in order to please it, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s communications director Fahrettin Altun said.