Enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex will be able to the end of the year more than 50% to substitute products of Ukrainian plants, said a senior Commissioner of the Ministry of defense of Russia.

"If we talk about Ukraine, the elements of their products at the end of the year be posted to 53%, This applies to items details," the military said, reports RIA " Novosti ". Authorized the Ministry of defence has noticed that If you take the whole item, the replacement will be released by 67%." why such a difference? Most of the older units we are going to do it again, the ancient Ukrainian is not necessary to us ", - he explained. According to his statement, " If only there were no restrictions on imports, they had to be invented just to make our industry started, because to do weapons in the Russian Federation ". On July 16, Deputy Minister of defense of Russia Yuri Borisov said that work continues on imports of components from Ukraine, NATO and the EU." in the period from 2014 to 2025 planned to import substitution 826 samples of weapons and military equipment. For the first half of 2015, substituted Ukrainian CRPS in 57 samples from 102 planned. More than 55% of the annual plan, " he says. According to him, work on import substitution started in 2015 and require time for development, adaptation and testing.

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