Ukrainian "Ukroboronprom" even at thirty percent is substituted for imports from Russia, said the Director General defence of the state concern Roman Romanov.

"Ukroboronprom" is more than 100 plants of the military-industrial industry, which employs about 60 thousand people. In the past year, the Ukrainian authorities forbade any military-technical cooperation with Russia.

"We are faced with the problem of import substitution, 30 thousand names We have received from our Northern neighbor. Were the traditional ties of cooperation, the technique was designed that included these components. Quickly enough in the past year was spent about eleven thousand types of products We are producing at the enterprises of " Ukroboronprom ", which is about 30%. This year, a significant portion will be disbursed, all this time We Had to buy accessories in the States of Western Europe, " said Romanov at a press conference on Wednesday.

first assistant to the President of the Russian Federation on the issues of military technical cooperation Vladimir Kozhin expressed the view that because of the break with Russia the overwhelming majority of Ukrainian defense industry enterprises have the opportunity to close.

first on "Yuzhmash" - the largest in Ukraine the enterprise for the production of rocket and space technology told about the acute shortage of applications and a suspension of work. The company said that " the gap established economic ties with the largest foreign trade partner of Ukraine (with Russia - ed.) has led to a catastrophic decrease in the value of production in the engineering sector amounted to, Usually, more than 20%. Special damage suffered by the enterprise, the majority of the portfolio of applications which provide Russian customers ".

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