KYIV, Aug 28 – The newest production center is being completed at Shostka-based Impulse Plant (part of the Ukroboronprom State Concern). Production of spare parts required for the completion of the creation of a closed artillery ammunition and missile weapons production cycle will start there soon, Director General of Ukroboronprom Pavlo Bukin has said.

"This is a new workshop with the latest machines designed for high-precision processing. It was created in record time thanks to the coordination of the main state stakeholders – the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the concern and the Impulse plant. Production of components essential for completing the creation of closed production cycle of artillery ammunition and missile weapons will start soon. In fact, for the first time in the history of Ukraine, we are creating an enterprise that is capable of producing the entire range of means of initiation in the required quantity to all artillery shells and missile weapons," the press service of Ukroboronprom said on Wednesday, citing Bukin.