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Ukraine’s defense sector has the capacity to manufacture 4 million drones a year, with 1.5 million already on order, the country’s president has said.

While Poland makes headlines globally for its defense spending, the country’s arms industry is lagging behind the competition, says a report in the U.K. daily The Financial Times (FT).

Poland is the EU’s third-largest beer producer, according to new figures from Eurostat.

Poland will start producing K2 tanks using South Korean technology and equipment, according to a statement made by Poland's defense minister.

Polish Ammunition, a public-private defense consortium, has committed to supplying its first entirely Polish-made 155mm artillery shells to the military by 2028, according to a recent newspaper report.

Ukraine has supplied its armed forces with six times more drones than last year over the last six months, Vadym Sucharevsky, Commander of the newly established Unmanned Systems Forces said.

Czech chemical giant Synthesia has announced plans to dramatically ramp up the production of nitrocellulose, one of the key compounds used to make gunpowder.

In 2022, egg consumption in the country amounted to approximately 152 units per capita annually.

Poland’s industrial output rose by 1.6 percent year on year in January, against the Polish Press Agency’s (PAP) consensus for a 3.1% increase, the country’s statistics office GUS reported on Tuesday.