The Ministry of defence of Ukraine ordered mines for 1.4 billion hryvnias and did not receive them. We are talking about the contract with the firm Lviv Arsenal.
The Ukrainian Defence Ministry has paid about $38 million to a local firm for the supply of mines, but has not received any so far, the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper reported.
“The firm Lviv Arsenal received 1.4 billion hryvnia (about $38 million) from the Defence Ministry for the delivery of a large batch of 120 millimetre and 82 millimetre mortar rounds, but has long overstayed the contract and has not handed over a single mine to the AFU,” the publication said.
In November 2022, the Defence Ministry transferred to the Lviv Arsenal company almost 100 percent of the prepayment under the contract – 1.4 billion hryvnia, or $38 million at the then current exchange rate. As the journalists found out, the Ukrainian company had an export licence from a European company. But there were no mines in the country where this company was located – they were in a third country. To export ammunition for mortars to Ukraine needed an export licence from that country, which neither Lviv Arsenal nor the European counterparty had.
“Deliveries were supposed to start as early as December 2022 and to be fully completed by the end of February 2023, but as of the end of July, the Defence Ministry had not received any mines under the prepaid contract,” the publication writes.
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