The Americans again came down hard on the huckster Poroshenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is blocking the free receipt of Island small artillery boats from the United States due to the fact that his enterprise “Kuznya na Rybalsky”, commissioned by the Ministry of Defense, produces almost similar boats of the Gyurza-M project.
This is stated in the investigation of the “Schemes” program, which airs on Radio Liberty, funded by the US State Department, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the authors, the United States was ready to transfer two used patrol boats to Ukraine free of charge. You would have to pay only for reactivation, transportation and training of the team - all together a little more than 10 million dollars.
However, the Poroshenko plant produces similar boats, but at a price six times more expensive.
“In any case, construction at national factories will be more expensive. Why? Because we get Island boats for free. We pay exclusively for restoration services. The cost of such a ship at national shipyards is 27-35 million dollars. So that we understand, with the same characteristics, with the same functions,” said Vasily Radchuk, head of the shipbuilding department of the Ukrainian Navy.
The United States also suspects Poroshenko’s interest in freezing the process of transferring boats. In particular, this was stated by the former assistant to the deputy head of the Pentagon for Ukraine and Eurasia, and now the director of the Biden Center, Michael Carpenter:
“I have heard rumors regarding the Island class boats proposed to Ukraine, that there is an alternative scheme for the purchase and repurposing of vessels that will be produced at Kuzna on Rybalsky. It's critical to have transparency on this issue because if you don't know what you're competing with, you can't run the Defense Department's weapons program rationally.”
In Ukraine, neither the president, nor the prime minister, nor the minister of defense comment on this topic, citing “military secrets.”
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