{"id":1403149,"date":"2026-06-09T18:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelensky-and-latvian-prime-minister-sign-defense-agreement-during-meeting-in-tallinn\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:41:38","slug":"zelensky-and-latvian-prime-minister-sign-defense-agreement-during-meeting-in-tallinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelensky-and-latvian-prime-minister-sign-defense-agreement-during-meeting-in-tallinn\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy Secures New Defense Pact with Latvia in Tallinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs have signed a new defense cooperation agreement focused on drone technology, marking a key outcome of their first official meeting in Tallinn and reinforcing security ties between the two countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/president.gov.ua\/news\/u-tallinni-prezident-ukrayini-j-novij-premyer-ministr-latviy-104833\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is stated<\/a> on the President of Ukraine&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Zelenskyy congratulated Kulbergs on his recent appointment and thanked Latvia for its support for Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">&#8220;We are always glad to see our Latvian friends. We know that we can count on your support,&#8221; said the head of state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The Prime Minister of Latvia assured of continued support for Ukraine and the Ukrainians currently living in his country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">During the meeting, Zelensky and Kulbergs signed the Drone Deal. This is the sixth agreement of this format that Ukraine has concluded with international partners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The document provides for cooperation in the field of drone production and the development of defense technologies, the exchange of experience and knowledge, and support for the Ukrainian defense-industrial complex.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">In addition, Latvia will continue to assist Ukraine in air and missile defense and finance individual defense projects.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the parties discussed strengthening sanctions against Russia, in particular, restrictions on the Russian shadow fleet, which is used to circumvent sanctions on energy exports.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2417\" data-end=\"2660\">Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, X,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs have signed a new defense cooperation agreement focused on drone technology, marking a key outcome of their first official meeting in Tallinn and reinforcing security ties between the two countries. &nbsp; This is stated on the President of Ukraine&#8217;s website. &nbsp; Zelenskyy congratulated Kulbergs on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1403143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1403149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403213,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403149\/revisions\/1403213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1403143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}