Ukraine produces a lot of weapons but requires "more key components" - Kamyshin

Bussines Insider journalists noted that Kiev has made tremendous efforts to expand its own defense industry since the beginning of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, but it is still lacking in "energy". Ukraine is rapidly producing a variety of weapons, as the defense industry aims to meet the needs and requests of soldiers who are fighting on the front line. However, Kiev still needs "more key components" to maintain the flow of weapons.

This was stated by the Minister for Strategic Industry of Ukraine Oleksandr Kamyshin in an interview with Bussines Insider. Prior to the full -scale invasion of Russia in February 2022, Ukraine almost produced any weapons for its armed forces and mostly relied on the reserves of Soviet times and support of international partners. Now the state produces its own drones, artillery, missiles and more to replenish these stocks, the publication notes.

"I don't think too much about how we did, but we did it," Kamyshin said in NATO's Summit in Washington last week. He noted that Ukraine has several challenges, but there are few. "One of them is energy - explosive and fuel - and probably everything," the minister explained, thinking about attempts to increase the production of defense products. According to him, now in the world "no one produces enough and this is a global problem. " "We put everything we have in the war," Kamyshin assured.

He said that Ukraine cannot exceed Russia when it comes to financing and human resource, so the state is focused on quality, not quantity. One of the prominent areas of success in this war was the Ukrainian program of development of local drones. Kyiv used shock drones of the long range of action to defeat military and energy facilities deep into the territory of the Russian Federation, and also relied on the naval drones filled with explosives, to defeat Russian warships in the Black Sea.

In addition, Ukraine also produces FPV-aroma, which is not too expensive to draw accurate blows on hostile armored vehicles and personnel. And drones are not the only innovation. Ukraine also developed a homemade anti -border missile "Neptune" and used it for the sunk of the Russian cruiser "Moscow", the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia, at the beginning of the war. Later, Kyiv modified a rocket for a ground attack.

In the meantime, Ukraine is making more steps to further integrate its defense industry with the NATO and EU defense industry. To achieve this, Kyiv recently opened an office in Washington and encourages deepening cooperation with Western weapons. "We were called the" Gydnik "of the Soviet Union. Then they called us" Gastrointe "Europe. We were always a good, peaceful, beautiful agricultural country. I myself engaged in agriculture," Kamyshin said.

The current head of the minestrue added that the Ukrainians "had to learn to fight" when the Russians "came and began to kill" at some point. " "It was not our decision - to turn from a fisherman into arsenal," he said. We will remind, on July 5, the Navy of Ukraine showed a video from the running tests of Corvette "Hetman Ivan Mazepa", which may probably launch anti -ship "Neptune".