Ukraine to be 'arsenal of the free world', says minister

(4 Nov 2023)
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Kyiv, Ukraine - 03 November 2023
1. Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries with associate
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3. Kamyshin speaking
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries:
"We keep growing because actually we started almost from the scratch, following with anti-tank guided missiles, following with (inaudible) missile program, following with drones, following with armored vehicles and many other positions. So in all of these segments, we grow times, sometimes dozens of times and in some positions it's hundreds of times."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries:
"Almost over 90% of what you see is done by drones on the frontline. I know that all people see all those videos. It's made by Ukrainian -made drones. All types of that: flying land drones, naval drones, underwater drones. So I would tell that local capabilities, that defense industry segment is growing. It's the fastest growing sector."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries:
"For us unmanned systems is the game changer (in the war) and we've already showed that we can grow that significantly and we keep growing and that definitely would be one of the lessons learned in this war that will change the global ways of waging wars."
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries:
"No matter how much you grow, you would be never enough because we got the greatest war on generations. So no matter how much we grow local production, standalone, we would be never possible to cover our needs. And that's why we will be always dependent on foreign supply as well."
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries:
"No single country in this world can stand against the tyranny on its own. So we would be always searching the ways how we can integrate with others. We already showed that we are the guy in the gang that you always want to have on your side. So finally, I'm sure that we would be significantly contributing to defense industry capabilities in Europe, and in the free world. I am sure that we will show that (by) spending enough attention to the defense industry, we can grow it significantly. We showed to the whole world that we've been growing as the agricultural country, as the bread basket for Europe, and we showed that we can be good in that, we showed that we can grow grains cheap enough and we can have efficient logistics cheap enough, and we will show that we are good in that. Now we're really focusing on making Ukraine the arsenal of the free world. We are focused on producing all types of weapons and ammunition, and we show that we can test it on the battlefield and make it better during the war. That's something we can contribute to the free world, because as you see, defense industry is becoming more and more important globally."
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries:
"The war that we see in Israel shows that defense industry is the backbone of security. It's important. I would tell that the world forgot about the importance of defense industry in the last decades, and this industry was underestimated. So Ukrainian case and Israeli case and other countries' cases show the defense industry is important. We should spend more attention to the defense industry.”
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