European Commissioner Andrius KUBILIUS at the UARM Hub Launch: From Frontline Innovation to European Defence Readiness
10 November 2026
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European Commission
Follow its sittings00:05 - 02:29
Speaker 1
Well, thanks a lot for inviting. Still young, but experienced commissioner, as he saw. And really, it's pleasure to be here. Dear Mustafa, dear ambassador, dear all, really pleasure to see all of you here in Brussels. And congratulations, really, on setting this UARM Hub.
Often here in Brussels the discussion is about bringing Europe to Ukraine. But today, you are bringing Ukraine to Europe as ambassadors of the Ukrainian defence industry. And this is really great. We need much more of Ukraine inside of European Union. And in my view, UARM Hub needs to become in its agenda broad agent than just a representation of those Ukrainian companies which are producing drones or some other innovative weapon systems.
Why I'm talking about that? Because I know, as Europeans, we need to learn from Ukraine not only how to produce drones. For example, in Ukraine, we see drone producers working very closely with drone operators on the front line. Some of your companies are establishing battalions of drone operators who are becoming part of regular drone army. That brings business-type dynamism of your industries into the actions of regular army.
That creates totally different drone defense ecosystem, very dynamic and much more innovative than still we see here in majority of European Union and perhaps NATO member states. And that your experience in creation of such ecosystem is broader and more important than just experience of industrial production of drones. And a clear Ukrainian lesson to Europe, such an ecosystem cannot be created without active leadership of drone industry. That is what our drone industry needs to learn, not only to produce drones, but also to create the whole ecosystem of drone defence. And in order for us to learn that, this UARM Hub is going to play crucial role.
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