diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/fix-openshift-clients-ee-dependency.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/fix-openshift-clients-ee-dependency.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e4407688
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/fix-openshift-clients-ee-dependency.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - ee - added ``meta/execution-environment.yml`` to decouple ansible-builder EE builds from the ``openshift-clients`` system dependency declared in ``bindep.txt``, which is not available in standard UBI repositories and caused builds to fail with ``No package matches 'openshift-clients'`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core/issues/1141).
diff --git a/meta/ee-bindep.txt b/meta/ee-bindep.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3f85228b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/ee-bindep.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+kubernetes-client [platform:fedora]
diff --git a/meta/execution-environment.yml b/meta/execution-environment.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d950e22a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/execution-environment.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+dependencies:
+  python: requirements.txt
+  system: meta/ee-bindep.txt