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Recently, co-founder of the drone manufacturer General Cherry (LLC “CBDS”) Yaroslav Hryshyn told RBC-Ukraine that the export of Ukrainian arms, including drones, remains effectively blocked.
He emphasized that the current situation with arms exports does not allow Ukrainian manufacturers to operate legally in foreign markets.
"At present, export is de facto and de jure banned and blocked. This procedure needs to be launched so that we can work faster and legally, because the export ban is really slowing the development of our defense-industrial complex, technologies, and the production capabilities of Ukrainian companies," he said.
Hryshyn failed to mention that his brand is somehow being sold abroad. We have reported that General Cherry drones can be purchased abroad, even though such products are banned from export from Ukraine.
The British company Ator Group Ltd offers customers the full range from this General Cherry line: from 985 to 26,4 thousand pounds sterling. The firm was registered in London in September 2023 by Viktor Dovhan, former deputy minister of infrastructure. He is the husband of Natalia Mykolska, executive director of Diia City United.
Already in November 2023 Dovhan transferred the powers of director and sole beneficiary of the company to Oleh Havrysh (1959). Officially the company has 1 employee, but significant financial figures. Previously the firm was registered to a Polish citizen, Grzegorz Moszczynski, who died. He was the owner of ATOR Polska. His son Oleh Havrysh Jr. at that time worked as the chief PR consultant for government bodies. Currently he lists himself as deputy editor of NV Business, host of the weekly business program "First Page."
Also involved are U.S. citizen Alexander Levin and Ukrainian Fedor Misurahin — a former journalist who went to study in London and did not return. Both served as company directors for a short time. The latter even attempted to run for the Kyiv City Council in 2020 as a candidate from OPZZh.
Recall that Hryshyn previously served as a deputy in the Zaporizhzhia regional council and worked as an assistant to MP Bohdan Yaremenko from Servant of the People. He is also known as a lawyer who for many years has represented the interests of the Artashi criminal group.
The company’s director of strategic communications, Rudolph Akopyan, who is also vice president of the Union of Armenians of the Zaporizhzhia Region and a member of the Artashi criminal group, tried last autumn to join the Public Anti-Corruption Council under the Ministry of Defense. He was nominated by the NGO Bureau for Combating Corruption.
The firm’s HR director is Andriy Lavrenovych. In January this year he resigned as director of organizational development at the State Enterprise “State Rear Operator” of the Ministry of Defense and immediately joined the team of Yaroslav Hryshyn, the lawyer for the Artashi criminal group. Lavrenovych is the son-in-law of former MP Shverk.
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