Ukraine’s Defence Cooperation Map: Treaties, Security Agreements and Drone Deals

Reference Updated 7 November 2026 Author: Anna Tsirat Download PDF Share

Since 8 July 2026 arms and technology exports to partner states may follow a simplified route: the Procedure approved by Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 875 of 01.07.2026 allows transfers without the approval of the Interagency Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation and Export Control Policy to states that have concluded with Ukraine an international treaty or another bilateral document on cooperation in the production, supply, joint development or technology exchange of unmanned systems and other defence products — a “Drone Deal” agreement (para. 5). The simplified procedure does not cover every export: only goods accepted into service or codified as items of supply, and military and dual-use technologies (para. 3 of the Procedure); exports of goods qualify where the contract is worth at least UAH 15 million, except components and assemblies (para. 4). The list of such states is approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the Commission’s consent and has not been published. In our view, until the MFA approves the list the simplified route does not work in practice: para. 5 makes the list binding on the State Service for Export Control. As of 7 November 2026 no approval had been reported; according to the Commission’s chair in an interview with LB.ua on 2 October 2026, the lists were still being compiled and no permit had been issued under the simplified procedure. An underlying document does not remove the other export control requirements: a permit from the State Service for Export Control is still needed (paras 4 and 13 of the Procedure), as are the importing state’s guarantee documents, sanctions screening of counterparties and end-use control; the terms are explained in our export control glossary.

This page collects what has been made public: for 60 states and the EU, the military-technical and defence cooperation treaties on the Verkhovna Rada site (61 documents, all in force), the 28 security agreements of 2024–2025 under the G7 Joint Declaration, marked as to whether they contain defence-industrial cooperation provisions, the 11 Drone Deal agreements by the count of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), 10 of them named officially, as reported by the President and the NSDC, and links to the security-of-information agreements in our reference on Ukraine’s security of information agreements. Everything has been checked against the document records and official pages; the links lead to the primary sources.

Before relying on a document

• The list of states under Resolution No. 875 is not public. It is compiled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the Ministry of Defence, the Security Service and the intelligence services, updated quarterly and submitted to the Interagency Commission for consent; the State Service for Export Control must take it into account (paras 5 and 9 of the Procedure). It appears neither on the websites of the MFA, the NSDC and the State Service for Export Control nor in legal databases. This table therefore shows the documents that may underlie the simplified procedure, not a state’s status on the list.
• Which documents count. Paragraph 5 names two kinds: international treaties under the Law on International Treaties of Ukraine, and “other bilateral international documents (treaty, memorandum, agreement and the like)” on cooperation in the production, supply, development or technology exchange of unmanned systems, other defence technologies or products, whatever their name. In our view, military-technical cooperation treaties fall within the first kind. We have read all the 2024–2025 security agreements: on our reading, 22 of 28 contain express provisions on joint production, localisation or technology transfer, 4 contain only general provisions on support for the defence industry, and two (with Ireland and Japan) have none; the marking is shown in the security agreement column. Whether the MFA counts agreements with general provisions only is for the MFA to decide when it compiles the list. In our view, given the words “supply” and “use” in para. 5, security agreements that provide only for arms supplies to Ukraine may also fall within it on its wording; the marking shows how specific an agreement’s defence-industrial provisions are, not whether the state will be listed. Most of these provisions are framed as intentions (“will explore”), not obligations. At the same time, the Ministry of Defence and the NSDC publicly describe the states covered by the simplified procedure as Drone Deal participants, so we would not treat a security agreement on its own as a basis.
• Drone Deal texts are unpublished. They appear neither on the Verkhovna Rada site nor in LIGA:ZAKON; the only published text is the Agreement with Qatar on Cooperation in the Field of Defence of 28.03.2026. The NSDC keeps the count: Latvia sixth (09.06.2026), Estonia, the Netherlands and Denmark seventh to ninth (07.07.2026), Norway tenth (23.08.2026), Finland eleventh (23.09.2026). Of the first five, four are named officially: Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar (the President, 21.04.2026) and Lithuania (13.05.2026); the official pages do not name the fifth.
• Security agreements differ in status. Most security agreements took effect on signature without ratification; those with Greece (Law No. 4610-IX) and Albania (Law No. 4890-IX) were ratified. The texts of 27 are published on the President’s site, and the Greek agreement on the Verkhovna Rada site. With the United Kingdom there is also the Agreement on the Centenary Partnership, ratified on 17.09.2025 and in force from 15.10.2025.
• Older military-technical treaties are mostly in force. The 1990s treaties with Germany, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, China and South Africa are shown in force in the Rada records. The treaties with Russia (1993, terminated on 27.05.2015; the 2006 agreement on intellectual property rights, on 02.04.2026), Belarus (1994, terminated on 18.08.2023) and Serbia and Montenegro (2003, lapsed on 09.10.2019) have ended.
• A treaty does not override embargoes and sanctions. Exports to states under a UN Security Council embargo are not allowed (para. 9 of Procedure No. 1807), and negotiations with states on the State Service for Export Control’s list require its opinion (Article 18 of the Law). For example, Libya is under an arms embargo under resolution 1970 (2011), reaffirmed by resolution 2819 (2026) and implemented by Cabinet Resolution No. 302, so the 2009 military-technical treaty does not open exports to it. The EU arms embargoes on China and Myanmar do not bind Ukraine, but the State Service for Export Control lists them as cautions to be taken into account. Applications concerning states under partial embargo are reviewed by the Interagency Commission (para. 18 of the Procedure).
• The Commission has not gone away. The Interagency Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation and Export Control Policy operates under its 2007 Regulation; since 15.09.2026 it has been chaired by Deputy Secretary of the NSDC Davyd Aloian (Decree No. 919/2026), and its membership was approved by Decree No. 1030/2026 of 05.10.2026. Under the Procedure it approves the lists of states and critical goods and reviews applications for states without a Drone Deal agreement, states under partial embargo, critical goods, and cases flagged by the security services (paras 6 and 18).
• The procedure is temporary. Resolution No. 875 applies during martial law and for six months after it ends (para. 8).
• Security of information is a separate treaty. Joint production almost always requires the exchange of classified information; whether such an agreement exists with a state is shown in the last column by a link to our reference on Ukraine’s security of information agreements.

Treaties, security agreements and Drone Deals by state

Dates follow the document records on the Verkhovna Rada site and the pages of the President and the NSDC. Security-of-information agreements are not repeated here: the links lead to the state’s row in our reference on Ukraine’s security of information agreements.

How to read: “—” — no document found; “signed” without an entry-into-force date — the Rada record shows the document in force but gives no such date; “in force from” — date per the record; “not in force” — terminated; in the Drone Deal column, preparation or a declaration is shown in a smaller note rather than as a signed agreement; an embargo note in the treaties column — see “A treaty does not override embargoes and sanctions”.

Agreements between defence ministries on military cooperation (training, exchanges, logistics) are listed for completeness. In our view, they can underlie the simplified procedure only where they concern the production, supply or development of defence products.

• Table by state (60 and the EU)
• What is not public
• How we can help

Drone Deals: 11 by the NSDC count (10 named officially) and the EU letter of intent

Numbers follow the NSDC count, which starts with the sixth agreement; the order of the first four and the fifth agreement have not been named officially. The letter of intent with the European Commission is not an agreement with a state and is not in the NSDC count.

What is not public

• The list of states to which international transfers may be made under Resolution No. 875, and the list of critical goods (para. 5 of the Procedure).
• The Interagency Commission’s decisions approving those lists.
• The texts of the Drone Deal agreements other than the one with Qatar; the texts of the 2026 agreements with Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
• Official confirmation of Drone Deals with Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United States: as of 7 November 2026 there are only reports of preparation or negotiations.
• The texts of the September 2026 documents with Canada and confirmation that they amount to a Drone Deal.

How we can help

We check whether a document underlying the simplified procedure exists with the partner’s state, prepare applications to the State Service for Export Control and the importing state’s guarantee documents under para. 11 of the Procedure, and support technology transfers and joint production. See our Defence Tech and Military Procurement practice.

If you know of a document or a change that is not yet listed, let us know and we will update the page.

Related materials

• Practice: Defence Tech and Military Procurement in Ukraine
• Practice: Dual-Use Technologies and Export Control in Ukraine
• Reference: Ukraine’s Security of Information Agreements
• Reference: Ukraine Export Control Glossary

This page is not legal advice. Information as of 7 November 2026; sources are Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 875 of 01.07.2026, the document records on the Verkhovna Rada website, the pages of the Official Website of the President of Ukraine and the “Drone Deals” section of the NSDC website, and Presidential Decree No. 180/2007 as amended.