Specialists to arrive in Ukraine to plan air defence production - presidential aide

KYIV (Reuters) - Specialists will arrive in Ukraine in the near future to draw up plans to establish production of military equipment including air defences, the Ukrainian president's chief of staff told reporters on Friday.

“I think very soon specialists will arrive here who will make a plan for our own production of everything that we need. First and foremost, this relates to air defences,” Andriy Yermak said.

Yermak talked more broadly about President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's visit to the United States last week, but it was not clear whether the specialists and the systems he was referring to would be American.

The presidential aide also said Ukraine was seeking to organise an international meeting of national security advisers to discuss Kyiv's peace formula in the second half of October.

(Reporting by Max Hunder; Editing by Alison Williams)