{"id":49348,"date":"2026-07-27T10:34:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=49348"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:44:32","slug":"key-takeaways-from-volodymyr-zelenskyys-interview-with-sky-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/key-takeaways-from-volodymyr-zelenskyys-interview-with-sky-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Key takeaways from Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s interview with Sky News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key messages from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s interview with Sky News:<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f According to Ukrainian intelligence, putin is not prepared to end the war and plans to intensify mobilization after the russian state duma elections on September 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f russia intends to mobilize between 300,000 and 500,000 personnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Ukraine, together with its European partners, has secured funding to purchase Patriot missiles from the United States, but the available quantity remains insufficient.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Insufficiently stringent sanctions on russia\u2019s military-industrial sector are allowing russia to increase the production of ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Ukraine\u2019s domestic defense industry is capable of effectively intercepting drones, but it is not yet able to provide sufficient capabilities to intercept ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Work is underway to establish a European anti-ballistic air defense system, although this will take time.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f U.S. President Donald Trump has approved granting Ukraine licenses to manufacture missiles for the Patriot system, but this does not mean that large numbers of interceptors will become available in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Ukraine is ready to manufacture more weapons under license for both its own needs and those of its partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Ukraine seeks to launch a new phase of cooperation with the United Kingdom under the Drone Deal initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Kyiv is interested in manufacturing British Storm Shadow missiles or comparable systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Ukraine intends to build a major manufacturing facility in the United Kingdom based on advanced Ukrainian technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Ukraine is prepared to share its technologies and battlefield experience with the United Kingdom and expects a reciprocal exchange of technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key messages from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s interview with Sky News: \u25ab\ufe0f According to Ukrainian intelligence, putin is not prepared to end the war and plans to intensify mobilization after the russian state duma elections on September 21. \u25ab\ufe0f russia intends to mobilize between 300,000 and 500,000 personnel. \u25ab\ufe0f Ukraine, together with its European&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}