Ukraine has a ‘short window’ to change legislation to allow foreign joint ventures in aircraft manufacture, space technologies and defense industries,

Ukraine has a ‘short window’ to change legislation to allow foreign joint ventures in aircraft manufacture, space technologies and defense industries, says Aivaras Abromavičius, President Zelenskyy’s new appointee to the supervisory board of UkrOboronProm. Saying the Rada elected on July 21 will have to ‘front load reform,’ adopting laws to allow the outside investment that save state companies undermined by ‘obsolete production,’ brain drain, and theft of secrets. Addressing Antonov’s inability to make and sell airplanes, he called the state company “a world champion of MOUs,” referring to the memorandums of understanding that emerge from trade fairs.