The supervisory board of Ukraine’s defense industry company UkrOboronProm appointed Lieutenant General Ivan Havryliuk as its new general director. The announcement was posted on the company’s website, which said that an external firm conducted the selection process.
The supervisory board of UkrOboronProm appointed Lieutenant General Ivan Havryliuk as the new general director following a competitive selection process. The final selection and interviews with candidates were handled by the Ukrainian office of international firm Amrop Partnership.
The statement cited Havryliuk’s long-standing experience in the military, management and defense sectors, saying that his expertise and understanding of the needs of the Ukrainian armed forces would be important to development and increased production capacity.
As a core entity in Ukraine’s defense industry, UkrOboronProm is considering a direction of working with foreign facilities to produce Ukrainian-designed weapons for both domestic use and export.
The statement also noted that the appointment of a successor had recently been made following an incident in Kyiv Oblast.