Ukraine needs any edge it can get to repel Russia from its territory. One emerging bright spot is its small but fast-growing defence industry, which the government is flooding with money in hopes that a surge of homemade weapons and ammunition can help turn the tide.
The effort ramped up sharply over the past year as the U.S. and Europe strained to deliver weapons and other aid to Ukraine, which is up against a much bigger Russian military backed by a thriving domestic defence industry.
Yet like many aspects of Ukraine's war apparatus, its defence sector has been constrained by a lack of money and manpower – and, according to executives and generals, too much government red tape. A more robust private sector could help root out inefficiencies and enable factories to churn out weapons and ammunition even faster.Workers check 82mm mortars at a factory in Ukraine, on Friday, Dec. 22, 2023.
Each newly made projectile is wrapped in craft paper and carefully packed into wooden crates to be shipped to Romania or Bulgaria, where they are loaded with explosives. Several weeks later, they’re shipped back and sent to the front. Russia is also pumping more money into its defence industry, whose growth has helped buffer its economy from the full brunt of Western sanctions. The country's defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, recently boasted of huge increases in the manufacture of tanks, drones and ammunition.
Still, domestic weapons factories face a range of challenges — from keeping up with changing needs of battlefield commanders, to their own vulnerability to long-range Russian missile strikes.Yaroslav Dzera, who manages one of Ukrainian Armour's factories, said he struggles to recruit and keep qualified workers, not least because many of them have been mobilized to fight.
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