CIS members hold air defense exercise at Ashuluk training ground in Russia's Astrakhan Region.
Photo: Valery Melnikov
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Russia Terminated Armament Projects with Ukraine
Russia has terminated a number of armament projects with Ukraine in the wake of supplies of Ukrainian weapons to Georgia, said Valery Konovalyuk, who heads the Ukrainian parliament’s commission for investigating illegal weapon supplies.
According to Konovalyuk, the matter at stake is upgraded BUK-M1 surface-to-air missile systems. “But when we began to sell it [BUK-M1] secretly to Georgia, they [Russia] refused,” the official said.
Ukraine could have solved the defense capacity problem for decades after upgrading those weapons at its enterprises, said Igor Alekseev, who is the deputy head of the commission. Besides, Russia had proposed to use the capacity of repair and engineering works in Zhulyany, the Kiev Region, to upgrade C-300 surface-to-air missile systems.
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