The missile program provides tentative funding for 10 years of UAH 250 billion.
Systematic work is underway in Ukraine to develop its own capacities in the development of air and missile defense, reports the Chronicle.info with reference to the Correspondent.
This was announced during a briefing by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov.
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«We have our excellent enterprises: KB Luch, and Yuzhny, and Iskra, and MotorSich. I hope that the air defense system, missile defense system, after all, we will mainly have the Ukrainian», — said Reznikov.
According to him, Ukraine communicates with all countries that have air defense systems.
«We have our own Ukrainian air defense systems. Of course they are not perfect. To this end, a 10-year missile program has been developed and is already being approved by the National Security and Defense Council; it was prepared by the Ministry of Defense together with the Armed Forces; it provides for approximately UAH 250 billion in funding for 10 years. But now all this is being calculated, the project will be approved by the National Security and Defense Council, accordingly, a state target program approved by the parliament will be written for this, and this will be a separate line in the budget of Ukraine for 10 years «, — said the Minister of Defense.