“Herman Smetanin, who has already headed the company in 2023-2024, will become the new head of Ukroboronprom B. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported this in the evening address. He said that he had already submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a submission to the appointment of Denis Shmigal by the new Minister of Defense. “Strategic industries will also be managed through the Ministry of Defense. Herman Smetanine will head Ukroboronprom. The task is very specific, clear.”, – Write On: ua.news
New manager “ Ukroboronprom B will become Herman Smetanine which already headed the company in 2023-2024.
This was reported in the evening address president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
He said that he had already submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a submission to the appointment of Denis Shmigal by the new Minister of Defense.
“Strategic industries will also be managed through the Ministry of Defense. Herman Smetanine will head Ukroboronprom. The task is very specific, clear. Now Ukrainian weapons on the front, in all our operations – about 40 %. This is much more Ukrainian production than ever since our country’s independence. The volumes are really large. But you need more. And we need more of our opportunities to push the war into the territory of Russia – to where the war was brought. To make them feel and what is the price of Putin’s refusal to cease fire and a real peace. We need to reach 50 % of Ukrainian weapons in the first six months of the new government, increasing our own production. I am sure that you can implement it, ”the President said.
Smetanin has already headed Ukroboronprom, his Appointed In June 2023 instead of released for the failure of Yuri Gusev’s rocket program. The latter promised President Zelensky, which in May 2023 the Ukrainian missiles “Sapsan” (the export name “Grim-2”) will massively destroy the Russian military infrastructure in the depths of the Russian Federation, but this did not happen.
