Military aid from the United States includes not only the transfer of US weapons to Ukraine, but also orders from enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.

$1.6 billion will be allocated for the purchase of Ukrainian-made weapons.

MP, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation Arsenii Pushkarenko stated this.

The funds will be taken from the funding provided under the recently signed aid package for Ukraine in the amount of almost $61 billion.

“This is very important today, because it regards the creation of joint defense enterprises that will be located in Ukraine or in our neighboring countries, taking into account security aspects,” the MP emphasized.

Pushkarenko added that this was one of the factors behind the development of the Ukrainian economy.

“The military technologies we have had been tested in combat conditions, which makes our defense industry quite attractive to many countries around the world,” the MP said.

In April, Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries, announced that Ukraine was launching an international fundraising campaign to raise $10 billion from abroad to purchase Ukrainian-made weapons.

The first such decision to purchase weapons for the Ukrainian Defense Forces was made on April 17 by the Danish government. The country has allocated $28.5 million for the purchase of weapons and military equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Ukrainian manufacturers.

It is expected that, in addition to Denmark, other customers of Ukrainian military products are expected to include the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Latvia, which finance the purchase of drones through the so-called Drone Coalition, which has already raised nearly €500 million.

As of April 2024, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has valid contracts for the purchase of weapons and military equipment in the amount of UAH 582.2 billion. Almost 50% of them are concluded with Ukrainian manufacturers.

According to Yurii Dzhyhyr, Deputy Minister of Defense, it regards agreements concluded in different years, which are in progress with different completion dates. Some of them are supposed to pay UAH 254 billion in 2024.