Ukraine's Defence Industry Undergoes Major Reforms Amidst War

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Ukraine's defence-industry team is being revamped, with new appointments to tackle corruption and inefficiency in the state defence consortium Ukroboronprom amidst the ongoing war.

Read more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine war In MARCH Ukraine abruptly rebooted its defence-industry team. Oleksandr Kamyshin, a hyperactive manager with a reformist pedigree, was appointed to head a beefed-up strategic-industries ministry. He has previously turned around the railways and has the confidence of the president’s inner circle.

Perhaps half a dozen of what were over a hundred operating units were still able to produce competitive products. The Pavlohrad chemical plant, for instance, delivered gunpowder, a commodity most in demand in any war. The Luch Design Bureau in Kyiv produced Stugna anti-tank guided missiles that helped stop Russia’s march on Kyiv, and the Neptune cruise missiles that famously sank Russia’s Black Sea flagship, the Moskva.

 

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