Russia has made a proposal of Belarus to replace Ukraine in the military-industrial complex
Russia took the initiative to move the production of several thousand types of products for military-industrial complex in Belarus because of the conflict in Ukraine, said Russian Ambassador to Minsk Alexander Surikov. " We made an offer Belarus large number. Several thousand types of components it is proposed to consider the Belarusian Committee for military industry, " Surikov said, RIA " Novosti." And We do not rule out that the download Baranovichi, the Orsha aircraft factories will increase in connection with this complication (with Ukraine), " said the Ambassador. First Deputy Chairman of military-industrial Commission (MIC) of the government of the Russian Federation Oleg Bochkarev said that the products from Ukraine, which was delivered to the military-industrial complex of Russia, has the opportunity to be replaced by supplies from Belarus if Kiev will permanently freeze its relations with Russia in the military-technical sphere. Remember, on June 17, the new head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has prohibited any military-technical cooperation with Russia. Then Vice-Premier Dmitry Rogozin said that the capital of Russia Already has a plan of import substitution of military products of Ukraine. He has supplemented his words by the fact that Russian industry for the last 2 and a half years will be able to completely get rid produced in Ukraine products of the defense complex. At the same time experts said because of this that, breaking the military-technical contacts with Russia, Ukraine " shooting yourself in the foot " And destroys the main sector of industry. Later Rogozin said that " the Ukrainian defence industry is the end ". As said by the Deputy Minister of defense Yuri Borisov, the Russian defense Ministry hopes for a 95% decline from dependence on deliveries of components from Ukraine. Already a schedule for import substitution, " analyzed the presence of stocks of components, preparing for the production of all parts, defined responsible ".