French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday asked French defense industry enterprises to speed up the transition to a “war economy regime” in order to respond more quickly to Ukraine’s needs in the war with Russia, Agerpres reports with reference to France Presse.

“We will continue to help the Ukrainians” because “we cannot allow Russia to think that it can win (…) A Russian victory would mean the end of European security,” Macron said in a speech at the Cherbourg naval base.

But “for this, France needs a defense industry, an industry in the mode of a military economy (…) with faster and stronger production capacity,” the French president said.

He recalled the “years of comfort” that allowed the defense industry to “maintain a very high level of quality, very high but expensive, expensive in small flows with little innovation.” However, “the modern world no longer allows this,” he noted, demanding an increase in the production of weapons and ammunition.

“I ask every director to be fully focused on production and delivery. We never have to settle for production terms stretched over several years,” said the leader from the Elyseeskyi.

This week, France announced new military aid to Ukraine consisting of 40 long-range Scalp missiles, 50 AASM (modular air-to-ground weapons) bombs per month for a year, about 3,000 new 155mm rounds per month, which France will triple production and 12 additional Caesar guns of the same caliber.

The Nexter company will produce 60 more Caesar guns for Ukraine this year, and the French government has invited its allies to buy them and deliver them to Kyiv.