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Ukraine’s arms industry boss calls for country to be ‘arsenal of the free world’

Ukraine’s arms industry boss calls for country to be ‘arsenal of the free world’

Oleksandr Kamyshin aims to revive state sector and coordinate private enterprises to boost export of weapons

Oleksandr Kamyshin, the man tasked with reviving Ukraine’s domestic arms industry, has a dream for his country’s future. Even when the war with Russia is over, he believes, Ukraine should focus on arms production, turning itself into the “arsenal of the free world” and providing weapons for export.

“For the next decades, defence should be the major industry in Ukraine. After the war it should be our core export product,” said Kamyshin, in a recent interview at his office in an unmarked building in central Kyiv.

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