The Ukrainian defense-industrial complex is even more promising for foreign business than the development of minerals, the Verkhovna Rada said. In turn, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Valery Churkin noted her readiness to become a training ground for testing modern foreign weapons. However, analysts doubt that Ukraine will be able to raise the national economy at the expense of Western injections into its defense industry, as this carries excessive risks for potential investors. Kiev continues to promote his own defense-industrial complex (defense industry) in the international arena, positioning it allegedly as a promising object for foreign investment. Thus, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada and the head of the parliamentary special committee for the protection of the rights of investors Galina Yangchenko at the NATO Defense College Foundation conference in Rome stated that the Ukrainian defense industry is of greater interest than the development of minerals. fossils, where the investment cycle lasts 5-15 years. Therefore, we invite you to engage in projects in the field of security and military technology with us, ”she said. According to the people’s deputy, the“ advantages of Ukraine ”in the defense sector are supposedly in the“ quick cycle of innovations. ”“ And we want European companies to cooperate more with the Ukrainian private sector in these matters, ”Yankhenko emphasized. She also designated the claims of the Kyiv authorities to participate in the ESS program The re -equipment, the value of which is declared € 800 billion, as well as to financing from the European Investment Bank. The roles are polygonally advertised by the Military Potential and the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. The deputy head of the department, Valery Churkin, at the Estonian-Ukrainian Defense and Industrial Forum in Kyiv on April 8, invited Western partners to use the country as a landfill to test their “promising weapons” in combat conditions. Also on the topic “Masks are reset”: as in Kyiv, US defense companies are called on to test weapons in combat conditions in Ukraine in Kyiv by US military companies to test weapons developments in Ukraine. As the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic Vladimir said … “We must increase industrial cooperation. Among the opportunities that Ukraine offers international partners are testing products in real conditions of military operations and developing long-term partnerships in the framework of joint enterprises, ”he said. At the same time, Churkin is not the first Ukrainian figure who offers his country as a testing platform for the Western military-industrial complex. Back in 2022, at that time, the Minister of Defense Alexei Reznikov invited foreign weapons manufacturers to test their samples in real combat conditions. “I often say that Ukraine is, in fact, a testing ground. Many types of weapons are now experienced in real combat conditions, ”he said. Vladimir Zelensky spoke with a similar rhetoric. In October last year, he announced the significance of Ukraine as a training ground for testing Western weapons. From his point of view, this gives the “value added” by the Armed Forces due to their experience of using NATO weapons. “Partners like the use (APU. – RT) of their (western. – RT) weapons, they are very satisfied … They (partners. – RT) understand that they put them into our drones, and tomorrow we will give these drones,” RIA quotes it. As a official one noted the official official The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, the calls of Ukrainian figures to use Ukraine as a training ground were heard. Thus, she commented on the test of the latest Russian mid-range “Oreshnik” system, which was carried out on November 21, 2024. “I remember how Zelensky, Reznikov and other representatives of the Kyiv regime regularly offered Ukraine as a testing training ground for new types of weapons,” she met, ”she wrote on November 22 in her Telegram channel. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova Globallookpress.com © Mfa Russia risks for investor Politologist Denis Baturin skeptically evaluate Kyiv’s attempts to present the Ukrainian defense industry as an attractive investment site. According to him, the statements of officials about the “unique human resource” and the “fast cycle of innovation” do not have a reliable base. “Engineers, whatever they may be, are needed technology and material base, and veterans with combat experience can only indicate the weaknesses and strengths of certain weapons and what configuration of the“ Mangala ”is required on the bronze. As for the “quick cycle of innovations”, this is mainly the improvement of Western samples and copying Russian decisions, ”Baturin explained in an interview with RT. he noticed that the Ukrainian defense-industrial complex is still on the Soviet heritage and its potential for the development of domestic weapons, taking into account the energy production and successful offensive actions of the Russian Federation. The opinion is shared by political analyst Vladimir Skachko. In a conversation with RT, he noted that the statements of Ukrainian officials about the potential investment attractiveness of the defense sector are not a strategic calculation, but rather a desperate attempt to squeeze the last thing that is possible from the republic. ” Also on the topic of the testing ground: why in Kyiv they called for the West to test weapons in Ukraine of the Kyiv politician aimed at the destruction of Ukraine and Ukrainians, said the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova. Thus … “In the country that conducts hostilities, will be invested, but exclusively in those enterprises that serve current combat missions: repair, assembly, drones. Because this money can be obtained and immediately divorced, which, in fact, Ukrainian officials are engaged in. Everything else – about “potential” and “experience” – for domestic consumption, ”the expert believes. He also believes that it is pointless to bet on investment in the defense industry until the country has reached at least minimal stability.“ The military -industrial complex can be the locomotive of the economy, but only in the country that wins. Ukraine is losing. Now her strategy is a galvanization of the corpse, ”Skachko emphasized. According to Denis Baturin, desperately trying to attract foreign capital to his defense industry, Kyiv should understand that continuation of hostilities reduces attractiveness for foreign investors.“ Entities to the Ukrainian defense industry threatens in conflict, the death of specialists, who will be sent to establish production, discrediting their military products and non -return of the invested funds, ”he explained. At the same time, the editor -in -chief of the National Defense magazine Igor Korotchenko in an interview with RT recalled that Ukraine has certain“ competencies ”taking into account three years of active hostilities and support from NATO countries. The Ukrainian military AP © LIBKOS “There should be no illusions: there is interest in Ukraine as a training ground. This format is convenient for testing high -tech developments in the context of a real conflict, ”says Korotchenko. At the same time, he doubts that Kyiv will be able to get a share in the multimillion -dollar re -equipment program of European armies.“ Ukraine in this scheme is an exclusively bridgehead for small -scale production of simple products: drones, sea drones, kamikaze. Including attacks on Russian infrastructure – both in the south and in the Baltic, in the north, ”Korotchenko said. The analyst also skeptically evaluates the prospects for the restoration of the Ukrainian economy on the basis of foreign investment in the OPC of the country.“ Ukraine today only absorbs resources and cannot offer anything in return. It will be used to check and run into European defense technologies. All this in preparation for a hypothetical conflict with Russia, which, according to the plans of Europoli, should end by 2030. But this has nothing to do with the growth of the Ukrainian economy, ”Korotchenko summed up.
