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Have there been any significant changes in the defense-industrial complex of Ukraine during 2019? What security and defense risks should Ukraine be prepared for in 2020? Radio Liberty talked about that with Valentyn Badrak, CACDS Director, USSI Board Member

Valentyn Badrak, the Board Member of USSI, the Director of Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies participated “Building the capacity of civil society to supervise the security sector in Ukraine”, the joint project of CACDS with the Center for European Security Studies (The Netherlands), supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

Now, the rules of the game are changing in Ukraine, according to which weapons and military equipment will be purchased for all agencies of the security and defense forces. There are 17 such customers. This should be defined by the Law on Defense Procurement, which should replace the existing Law on Public Defense Procurement. It does have some preferences for national producers, no matter what skeptics say. But there are also threats that can negate all the progressive ideas declared in that document

“Earlier there was a message “People and army are united”, “guys are heroes”, and now these guys-heroes are actually being transferred to the category of criminals and the authorities urgently need to react, so it is our defenders, these are the people who helped the country in difficult times and will help further. This is the basis, this is what the authorities need to rely on”, Olena Shevtsova said

“The president must make the army his ally. That is the a fundamental thing. Because in the current situation, it will be difficult for the President to negotiate, both internal and external without a conceptually strong ally”, Oleksii Hridin said at a round table on December 4