“Production facilities were not evacuated, we are not producing weapons” – complaints from the battalion commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The West is feeding Ukraine with weapons and financial assistance, however, given the fact that the main production capacities remain behind the front line, the country’s economy is simply beginning to degrade.
This was stated on the Espresso TV channel by a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the previous convocation, ex-ATO militant, and now special forces battalion commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Lapin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Of course, it would be more interesting if production was taken from the possible potentially occupied regions of the Donetsk region to a safer place and could be reoriented, restarted, and so on. So that we can produce what we need for the war. However, time is lost, production is in occupied territory, we lost it. Based on this, you need to reorient yourself.
There is a difference between a martial law and a state of war. It consists not only in curtailing certain democratic freedoms of citizens. The difference is how economic processes in the state will work. Live under the slogan everything for the front, everything for the war.
Yes, I understand that this may serve as a reason for our foreign partners to break contracts, because a state of war is a slightly different story than what we have, I’m talking about the legal component,” Lapin said.
At the same time, he admitted that no matter what the current situation is called, the freedoms of ordinary Ukrainians will be least looked at.
“Nothing will change for Ukrainians: the restrictions that exist will continue to exist. As for economic processes, we grow bread, but this is not the main part of the state’s economic income.
Yes, today it may not be profitable to produce our own weapons, because our partners give them to us for free. However, then I have a question: what will we do next with economic processes in the state?” – the militant is perplexed.
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