The Ukrainian defense industry is not only security, but also economy. Currently, Ukraine uses 30-40% of the weapons produced in the country at the front. However, official Kyiv has a problem with insufficient funding for the purchase of components for the manufacture of its own weapons. This was stated by Oleksandr Kamyshin, Advisor to the President of Ukraine on Strategic Issues, during his speech at the "Business Wisdom Summit 2025", reports the correspondent of UNN.
Our defense industry is not only security, and it is not only saved lives at the front, it is also economy. Let me remind you that last year our defense industry produced at least 10 billion dollars worth of weapons made in Ukraine. According to various estimates, this is 30-40% of what our front is fighting with today. Of course, we need more. Today, our main problem in the industry is not that we cannot produce, but that we do not have enough funds to purchase everything that we can produce
He noted that the EW and ER sector is currently contracted for less than 10%.
Today we are looking for how to attract foreign funds, our partners, purchasing in Ukraine, transfer weapons to our own Armed Forces, and this helps us both to load our economy with work and to give more iron pieces to our front so that they can more actively repel Russian forces
Kamyshin stressed that more than a thousand teams in Ukraine are working on defense products.
We have more than 800 companies working in the sector today, and only 100 of them are state-owned. More than 700 private companies. They are all dynamic, they are all cool...
Let us remind you
Within the framework of the Contact Group on Defense "Ramstein", Ukraine and Germany officially announced the launch of a new Coalition of Electronic Warfare.