Kremlin: Ukrainian defense " because of the break with Russia threatens the most pessimistic scenario

The vast number of enterprises of the Ukrainian defence-industrial complex have the ability to close, and Moscow hopes to resume cooperation with Kiev in this area, said on Wednesday the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation on the issues of military-technical cooperation Vladimir Kozhin the exhibition Africa Aerospace and Defence-2014.
" Military-industrial complex of Ukraine was very powerful and integrated with us, we this problem will survive, but what will happen to them... you Can wait for the most pessimistic scenario, when the overwhelming majority of these companies may stop working. There's no alternative, they had one supplier and customer - Russia ", - said Kozhin, quoted by RIA " Novosti ". He expressed the hope that " common sense on the crisis in Ukraine " will prevail and will resume cooperation with Ukrainian partners (DIC) ". Remember, June 17, the new leader of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko forbade any military-technical cooperation with Russia. Then Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that the capital of Russia already has a plan for import substitution of military goods of Ukraine. He has supplemented his words by the fact that the Russian industry for the last 2 and a half years will be able to completely abandon produced in Ukraine the defense industry. According to the head of the Ministry of industry and trade Denis Manturov, the total portfolio of Russian applications for Ukrainian plants both military and civil products is fifteen billion dollars, scta is 8, 2% of Ukraine's GDP, which according to the results of 2013 amounted to 182 billion dollars." the harm to the defence of Ukraine is, of course, more than for the Russian Federation ", - said the head of the Federation Council defense and security Viktor Ozerov.

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