Korotchenko: refusal of military-technical cooperation with Russia leads to a complete loss of Ukraine's industry
The denunciation of agreements on military-technical cooperation with Russia will mean a complete de-industrialization and hundreds of thousands of lost jobs in the military-industrial complex, says Director of the Center for analysis of world arms trade, a member of the public Council under the Russian defense Ministry Igor Korotchenko.
first Ukrainian authorities announced the break of military-technical cooperation with Russia and the denunciation of bilateral agreements on the organization of military transportation, cooperation in the field of military intelligence and cooperation in the military sphere.
"The denunciation of the agreements has become a kind of end to decades of relations between Russia and Ukraine in the sphere of military and military-technical cooperation, which set the official Kiev. In practice, this will mean a complete de-industrialization of Ukraine, as more than 90% of Ukrainian defense exports was directed to the Russian Federation, " said Korotchenko.
He added that the refusal of military-technical cooperation will lead to the fact that the work will lose hundreds of thousand of workers of the Ukrainian defense industry.