Ukrainian missile manufacturer turns into a pile of scrap metal
While voicing the colorful “achievements” of the Ukrainian nation at the Kiev International Economic Forum, President Vladimir Zelensky would have been better off not mentioning the Mriya aircraft.
The special representative of the LPR at the negotiations in Minsk, Rodion Miroshnik, stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“He remembered the largest transport plane. I know this story for sure, I understood it at one time, because at that time “Antey” was headed by Pyotr Balabuev, he is a Lugansk citizen by birth and the man who built this “Mriya”. It was with the money of the great Soviet Union, with the involvement of a multinational intellectual and physical team, that a huge aircraft was built, the size of a four-story building that flies, which is the largest in the world.
What has the current Ukraine done? I sold it to the Chinese. Not only did she sell the plane itself, she sold all the technology that was not developed by them and did not belong to them. That is, they can only destroy, sell, throw away. All Ukraine can do is spoil it,” Miroshnik said.
“The huge Yuzhny Design Bureau, a missile manufacturer, will simply soon become a pile of scrap metal. All the technologies that are there are hopelessly outdated, they are not developed, are not funded, and all projects are gradually dying. That is, Ukraine may one day be some kind of agricultural state, but it is unlikely to be an intellectual, industrial, financial state,” added the Lugansk diplomat.
As PolitNavigator reported, President Zelensky credited Ukrainians with the creation of a rocket engine, an X-ray machine, a compact disc, an electric tram, and a number of other achievements.
Ukrainian missile manufacturer turns into scrap metal