MOSCOW. Nov 1 (Interfax) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu urges Ukraine not to associate the Bayraktar drones supplied to the country with his country.
"In our fight against terrorism in various countries, we have encountered different weapons produced in various countries, including Russia, but we have never accused Russia of this. Ukraine should also stop using the name of our country," Cavusoglu said on the sidelines of the Group of Twenty summit in Rome in response to a question from journalist Pavel Zarubin for the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program on the Rossiya 1 (VGTRK) television channel.
"When a country buys any defensive weapons from us or any other country, it ceases to be Turkish, Russian or Ukrainian," he said
"Thus, as soon as they bought weapons from us, it ceased to be Turkish. Although it was made in Turkey, it now belongs to Ukraine. Turkey has nothing to blame for this situation," the Turkish minister said.
On October 26, the Ukrainian military said it used Bayraktar attack drones purchased from Turkey in 2019 for the first time in the area of the military operation in Donbas.