Alex Ritson

James Waterhouse.

And as talks continue in Brussels, the war in Ukraine rages on.

Kiev is making no assumptions about support and is moving to ramp up production of its own weapons.

After being heavily reliant on the West, Ukraine now says it's producing more than 50% of the weapons it uses on the front line.

That includes long-range drones and missiles to hit targets deep inside Russia.

Our defence correspondent, Jonathan Beale, has been given rare access to facilities now mass-producing these weapons, which they say are the only way of providing Ukraine with reliable security guarantees.

We're being driven to a secret location.

It's all a bit cloak and dagger.

been asked to put eye masks on so we can't see where we are we're going to the factory where they produce ukraine's long-range missiles this is where they're making ukraine's own cruise missile the flamingo and there is a finished product on a lorry ready to go it's 12 meters long

It has a wingspan of two meters.

It's got a rocket up on top.

And it has a range of 3,000 kilometers.

And this is the fuel here?

Dennis Stillerman is Firepoint's founder and chief designer.

And Irina Terech is the company's chief technical officer.

Less than nine months.

Less than nine months?

Yes.

Has that ever been done before?

Does any other company produce missiles that quickly?