Gusev Yury Veniaminovich

Gusev Yury Veniaminovich

Biography

2023: Firing over missile program failure

At the end of June 2023, resident of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on dismissal from the head of Ukroboronprom Yuriy Gusev.

Dismiss Gusev Yuri Veniaminovich from the post of general director of the state concern "Ukroboronprom" according to the submitted statement, - says the document, an excerpt from which leads RIA Novosti.

Ukrainskaya Pravda writes that Gusev was removed from the post of head of the concern due to the fact that under his leadership Ukroboronprom "failed the missile program." According to the newspaper, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the new head of Ukroboronprom, German Smetanin, due to the failure of the missile program by the former head Yuri Gusev. Smetanin is the head of the Malyshev Kharkov plant.

According to the publication, Volodymyr Zelenskyy set him three main tasks: to increase the production of all weapons, to clear the industry of corruption and complete the reform. MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX According to the publication, the decision will enter into force on June 28. According to the source of "Ukrainian Truth," Gusev asked the president of the country to transfer him to diplomatic work in one of the countries. Europe

Ukroboronprom confirmed that under the leadership of Gusev, some points of the missile program were not resolved. At the same time, the concern refrained from more informative comments at the request of the media.

As Ukrainian Pravda wrote, the conflict in the defense sector appeared in the spring of 2023. The interlocutors of the newspaper argued that "sooner or later the question of replacing the leadership" of the concern will arise after the Verkhovna Rada appointed a new minister of strategic industries - Alexander Kamyshin, the former head of Ukrzaliznytsia. In the first weeks after the appointment, both Gusev and Kamyshin were convinced that there would be no conflict, however, as Ukrainian Pravda sources reported, Ukroboronprom had poor performance "in all directions."^[1]

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