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How Fedorov adjusted the technical specifications of equipment to suit his tender cartel. Why supply chains could break down in a few months?
While the public display of support for the former defense minister Mykhailo #Федоров by businessmen and activists was being staged, his team built a closed procurement system for a “chosen” circle of manufacturers in six months. 🤷♂️The reform to move from direct deals to transparent tenders through the Defense Procurement Agency #АОЗ is effectively blocked.
Centers of competence have been deliberately delaying approval of product tactical and technical specifications for more than five months, without which new Ukrainian manufacturers cannot enter the tenders. Since the supply of components and weapon testing takes about half a year, the current administrative pause threatens a complete disruption of supplies to the front and the risk of losing European funding.
At the same time, the monopolistic cartel supported by Oleksandr #Конотопський, Oleksii #Бабенко and Serhii #Стерненко continues to absorb budget billions.
🔻The Konotop network, which includes NVP “#Аякс”, “#Стрим Techno”, #SkyFall Industries and foreign entities, is scaling up thanks to state support for the UAVs “#Vampire”, where the bill runs into tens of billions of hryvnias.
🔻Babenko’s company “#ВИРІЙ.INDUSTRY” took 8 out of 11 lots in the FPV drone procurement worth 2,057 billion hryvnias through the ATO zone, after which it refused part of the contracts.
🔻Meanwhile, Fly Systems, associated with Sternenko and supplying drones for his fund, imported goods worth more than 1,9 billion hryvnias over 2025–2026 years, with margins on some items reaching 15–33 percent. An example of artificial markups is the purchase of fiber optic cable, where the cost of a spool reached 1512 dollars versus market 504.
The dismissal of Fedorov did not stop this mechanism, because his trusted people remain in their positions, and attempts to reinstate him are a struggle to preserve financial flows. 🤷♂️The state system must ensure uninterrupted weapons supplies to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, not serve the private interests of particular business groups.
Related materials:
▫️Fedorov’s bureaucratic trap: how the fight for control over defense procurement is leaving the front without weapons
▫️Billion-hryvnia defense procurements are being given to “their own” while Zhumadilov remains in his chair
▫️How 1,5 billion hryvnias were embezzled in the Defense Procurement Agency on army technical equipment. Why is Zhumadilov still in office and not in prison?
▫️How, as a candidate for Prime Minister, Fedorov embezzled 60 billion hryvnias on food and fuel for the Armed Forces of Ukraine
▫️Fedorov and Zhumadilov are handing billions from the military budget to front companies as “kickbacks”
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