Co-founder and director of Tencore, Maksym Vasylchenko, does not share the significant excitement about the potential opening of arms exports for Ukrainian manufacturers.
Co-founder and director of Tencore, Maksym Vasylchenko, does not share the significant excitement about the potential opening of arms exports for Ukrainian manufacturers.
As Vasylchenko noted in an interview with dev.ua, he personally divides this issue into two points.
«First, it’s a notorious arms export blockbuster. In my opinion, opening up exports will be a cold shower for many. Not everyone needs our products, because any country will be motivated to invest money in its development, for its defense, in its people. Therefore, I am sure that after they allow exports, people will see that no one wants to buy their products and will again look for the guilty in the Rada, the President, or someone else — they don’t buy us because someone didn’t do something,» he shared his expectations.
The second point in this regard, according to the director of Tencore, concerns the opening of joint venture companies, which will have Ukrainian and European shares of the company.
«The money from this company should flow back to the parent company, which is in Ukraine. The money should return to Ukraine, from any sales. Currently, this procedure is being worked out by the Office of the President — how this should happen, at what prices, what is the order and who will receive the shipment,» said the director of Tencore.
Maksym Vasylchenko also expressed confidence that if we are talking about purely military technologies, then these should be G2G (government to government) sales.
«The rules should be international, the same for all countries, so that there are no double standards,» Vasylchenko is convinced.
As dev.ua reported, the new head of the Ministry of Defense, Denys Shmyhal, does not see any possibility of opening up the export of domestic weapons to Ukrainian weapons manufacturers at this time. However, he assured that the state is working to increase government orders in Ukraine.
At the same time, the Executive Director of the Technological Forces of Ukraine, Kateryna Mykhalko , stated that the Verkhovna Rada is working on a draft law on arms exports, which should lay the foundations for legislative regulation of this process.
