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Defense minister says Ukraine needs long-range weapons to prevent encirclement in Donbas.

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Russia is trying to encircle Ukrainian troops in the Donbas, and Ukraine's partners should supply long-range missiles and other offensive weapons to prevent this and push Russian troops out of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov said on April 13.

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In a closed-door briefing with journalists, Rustem Umerov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and Oleksandr Kamyshin, an advisor on Strategic Industries to the President's Office, said that the current production capacity (for this year) of the Ukrainain defense industry is around $35 billion per year.

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