Speaking at the Road to URC summit, Tusk said Ukraine's battlefield experience against Russia had made it a uniquely valuable partner for countries seeking to protect their airspace.
"It is very important to me that Ukraine's tragic, yet impressive experience confronting Russia becomes part of Poland's own knowledge of how to defend Polish skies," Tusk said.
"Poland must have its own modern drone armada, so that we can say with full conviction that we are safe," the Polish PM added.
The programme will be jointly funded using Polish and European money.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who met Tusk before the summit opened, said Ukraine's defence sector had undergone a dramatic transformation since the start of the Russian invasion.
"We were a country that received assistance from the first days. Now we are able to provide the most advanced defence solutions ourselves," she said.
Svyrydenko added that Ukrainian-made systems were already destroying tanks and costly enemy equipment, and encouraged joint ventures between Polish and Ukrainian firms.
Tusk described Rzeszów as a symbolic venue, noting the southeastern city was among the first to mobilise support for Ukrainians fleeing the war.
The summit is a preparatory stage for the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC), due to be held in Gdańsk in June, which will focus on post-war reconstruction.
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Source: PAP