On February 14 of this year, the Defense Procurement Agency of the Ministry of Defense and the Pavlohrad Chemical Plant of the Ministry of Strategic Industries signed a contract for 250,000 rounds of 2C1 and D-30 artillery systems, after which the Agency transferred UAH 9.5 billion - and already in the summer these funds were returned, when it turned out that the Pavlohrad enterprise did not produce a single shot - this is reported in the article "Tens of billions of hryvnias for production renewal and advances payment for ammunition, which the front still does not receive".
For six months, the Defense Procurement Agency and the Pavlohrad Chemical Plant supplied the army not with artillery fire, but with empty promises. This is what the director of the Agency, Mariana Bezrukova, said in an interview with the Ukrainian Pravda: "At the time of signing, I had been the director of the Agency for two weeks straight. And I was against these agreements. I believed that it was necessary to diversify. It was obvious that there would be risks of a breakdown".
But the question is not only for the Defense Procurement Agency, which had to check the plant's ability to produce such a quantity - the question is for the Ministry of Strategic Industries, headed by Oleksandr Kamyshyn at that time. According to the journalists, in accordance with the budgets of Ukraine for 2022-2024, the Ministry of Strategic Industries allocated UAH 55 billion to state-owned enterprises to increase production capacity. A large part of this money went to the state ammunition factories - Pavlohrad Chemical Plant and Artem, which were already supposed to fully supply the Armed Forces with the necessary ammunition.
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