“In recent years, instead of Ukrainian tractors, combines, locomotives and construction equipment, the government has been purchasing imported analogues, killing its production and the country's scientific and technological future. Our neighbors are eliminating Ukrainian manufacturers as competitors at the hands of our own authorities, ”he wrote on his Facebook page.
As an example, he cited the situation with the Morozov Kharkov Design Bureau (KHMB), which may soon cease to exist due to fines of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and lack of funding.
“A number of decisions of the Ministry of Defense will lead to the liquidation of the State Enterprise“ Kharkov Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering named after A. Morozov ”. In fact, the HCBM was left without orders for the manufacture of new equipment, without money to develop promising designs and with the threat of receiving a multi-million fine for outstanding contracts, which would finally block the work of the enterprise, ”he said.
Earlier, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Danilyuk said that the country's military-industrial complex (MIC) is “in rather poor condition.”
Read more about the situation with the military-industrial complex of Ukraine in RT.