The Ukroboronprom State Concern supports the proposal to liberalize the existing system of military and technical cooperation and arms exports amid new challenges of wartime and to grant the powers of special exporters to private defense producers, Ukroboronprom Head Pavlo Bukin has told Interfax-Ukraine. He told the news agency on Monday, February 26, following the consideration of this issue at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, the participants had agreed on the following position that is currently being processed: “Ukrainian private defense producers will be granted the right to export their own products, and the right to import defense products in the interests of ensuring their own production.”
According to Bukin, at the same time, in order to avoid “abuses and excesses in the regions,” it is planned to return to the defense sector a system for licensing or certifying defense products. “It’s about manufacturers presenting their products and the state making sure that these products exist, that they meet standards, and that they are not transferred to and not used by persons who are not given the right to use them,” he said.
According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, in recent years, 50% were private defense companies in the structure of executors of the state defense order.
