# Romania, an EU and NATO state, shares a 650-km (400-mile) land border with Ukraine.

*aerospace · news · 2026-04-01 · U.S. News & World Report*

## Key points

- Ukraine and Romania are negotiating joint drone production funded by the EU's SAFE initiative.
- Romania plans to allocate 200 million euros for this joint drone manufacturing project.
- A contract signing for the joint production may occur by the end of May.
- Fifteen Ukrainian companies are actively participating in the Bucharest project discussions.

BUCHAREST, April 1 (Reuters) - Ukrainian drone ⁠manufacturers ⁠are meeting Romanian ⁠defence ministry and army officials in the ​capital Bucharest this week to discuss potential joint production ‌under a new European ‌Union rearmament funding mechanism, the ministry ⁠said in ⁠a statement. Romania, an EU and NATO state, shares ​a 650-km (400-mile) land border with Ukraine and has had drones breach its airspace and fragments fall onto its ​territory repeatedly since Russia began attacking Kyiv's ports ⁠located across ⁠the Danube from ⁠Romania. The ​EU has allotted Romania 16.6 billion euros ($19.2 billion) under its ​new rearmament ⁠initiative SAFE, which will begin later this year, and Defence Minister Radu Miruta said the country wanted to spend 200 million euros for joint ⁠drone production. "We are currently discussing how to form a team ⁠to deal exclusively with this project, with the contract signing deadline being the end of May," Miruta said in a statement late on Tuesday after meeting Ukraine's Deputy Minister for Strategic Industries Sergiy Boyev. Fifteen Ukrainian companies will continue discussing the project in Bucharest in ⁠the coming days, he added. Earlier this month, Romanian and Ukrainian presidents signed a statement of intent to produce Ukrainian defence systems including drones ​in Romania. ($1 = 0.8630 euros) (Reporting by Luiza Ilie; ​Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.

**Companies:** Ukrainian drone manufacturers
**Countries:** Romania, Ukraine

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