KYIV, March 4 – The program on import substitution of Russian components in defense industry initiated by the Ukroboronprom state concern in the conditions of breaking off defense cooperation with Russia due to the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas, has been implemented by 70%, Ukroboronprom Head Pavlo Bukin said.
Answering on the Pryamiy TV channel the question about the current degree of dependence of the Ukrainian defense industry on Russian components in the context of the Nashi Groshi TV project that received a wide political and public response about the corruption procurement of smuggled Russian components through the middleman firms of the Ukroboronprom's armored factories in 2015-2017, Bukin said: "We still need components from the Russian Federation, though we need them fewer... If we speak in numbers, 70% dependence [of the defense industry on Russian components] has already been overcome."
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