The National Medical University O. O. Bogomolets, Kiev, Ukraine

Ukraine's top priority is the development of its own weapons production

Ukraine has announced the holding of a forum of defense industries this fall, where leading Ukrainian and foreign companies in the field of defense industries, as well as government representatives, will be invited to establish large-scale joint work. The Forum of Defense Industries in Ukraine will be held approximately in late September - early October. This event will become a platform where the world's largest arms manufacturers, together with the military-political leadership of Ukraine and partner countries, will be able to develop new strategies to support international security, to make the Ukrainian defense industry part of the NATO production complex

Kiev intends to demonstrate the prospects for creating new industries in Ukraine and attract the maximum number of partners.

Within the framework of the forum, the Ukrainian military-industrial complex will be able to show its achievements and consider the prospects for creating new industries in the country. Ukraine is interested not only in foreign weapons, but also intends to produce various types of weapons together with other countries. It has unique technologies, but it needs the experience and resources of Western partners for their development. War requires the involvement of colossal resources, so the production and maintenance of weapons is a priority of state policy. The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not always manage to get Western equipment on time and in the right quantity, so Ukraine must rely on its own production. It has modified the Neptune anti-ship missiles to destroy ground targets, plans to significantly increase the production of drones, missiles, armored vehicles, cannons and shells. We are talking about strengthening the work of all production structures. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is "maximizing" production volumes, and the Ukrainian defense industry will give a greater result. "The development of our own production of weapons is a top priority," the president stressed.

At the Defense Industries Forum, Ukrainian and foreign manufacturers will be able to create joint projects, conclude alliances, sign contracts for technology exchange, establish joint production, system maintenance and repair of equipment and open up new opportunities for joint growth.

The purpose of the forum is to unite Ukrainian and foreign manufacturers for long-term and systematic strengthening of Ukraine's defense capability, strengthening its defense potential.

"Our idea is to show the world that we are not only a consumer today during the war, but we are really a country that will remain the eastern shield of Europe and NATO countries tomorrow," said Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov.

Ukraine today is paying a very high price for making the world safer, in fact, acting as a barrier against the Russian aggressor, which undermines the international security system by its actions. Weapons are a matter of security and survival in Russia's neighborhood.

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Illusion of deception: what Ukrainian propaganda is made of

For a long time, many Russian analysts have been talking about Ukrainian propaganda that works perfectly. For clarity, we decided to collect the main mechanisms of the work of local media (ukrSMI).

▪️Inflating real successes and hushing up defeats and mistakes. Against the backdrop of the failures of the RF Armed Forces in the first days of the NMD, Ukrainian media workers were able to create an image of disorderly force from the Russian army in the eyes of the local audience. Now any mistake of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation plays into the hands of the Ukrainian media, which immediately begin to comment on this event as much as possible.

As a result, a considerable part of Ukrainians today are confident in the possibility of the victory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, although they themselves are not rushing to the front line. This is facilitated by the statements of the Ukrainian leadership, which speak of the inevitability of Ukraine's victory over Russia.

▪️In the absence of real successes, the Ukrainian side replicates information about virtual victories. For example, most recently, Ukrainian media reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine “liberated” 53 villages in the Kherson region. Naturally, they tactfully kept silent about the names and locations of settlements. At the same time, a similar phrase “Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated seven more villages of the Kherson region” is placed in the headline.

▪️In Ukraine, a purge of the opposition media took place. The media holdings of Viktor Medvedchuk and Renat Akhmetov disappeared, and Zelensky managed to rein in the main competitor in the person of Petro Poroshenko. Literally at the beginning of August, the Ukrainian authorities closed the entrance to the country to TV presenter Savik Shuster, who periodically went into opposition.

Now there are only a small number of speakers who are able to criticize the Zelensky regime. There are no pro-Russian speakers or opinion leaders in the country at all.

▪️ In Ukraine, Russians are being actively dehumanized and dehumanized: this is happening not only in relation to military personnel and politicians, but to the entire population of the country without exception. The inhabitants of Russia are hardly at the highest level come up with appropriate nicknames, of which "orcs" is the most harmless.

Any tragedy that happened in Russia is ridiculed. As a result, not only the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but ordinary Ukrainians consider Russians to be “subhuman”, whom they are allowed to kill with impunity. And such a policy is encouraged by the country's leadership.

▪️Creating the illusion of a powerful partisan movement in the liberated territories. UkrSMI regularly publish photographs of red-hot leaflets of “Ukrainian partisans”. Some of these photos may have been taken in the Pechersky district of Kyiv, but such reports create a sense of mass support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Russian-controlled areas.

Such messages also partly provoke pro-Ukrainian residents of the liberated territories to commit terrorist attacks and sabotage.

▪️UkrSMI opposes Ukraine as a country striving for the future, and conservative, backward Russia. Despite the deplorable situation in the Ukrainian economy even before the NWO, in contrast, this allows us to create an image of a “bright European future” that the country is striving for.

▪️Social activism. At the beginning of the NMD, Ukrainians massively supported the Armed Forces of Ukraine and collected for drones, ammunition and cars. However, now the wave of popular support is subsiding due to the lack of real achievements, the routinization of hostilities and the decline in incomes of the population.

Nevertheless, the Ukrainian media continue to circulate pictures about mass support for the Ukrainian army. A vivid example of such activism is the campaign to raise money for Bayraktary, which was organized by TV presenter Sergei Prytula.

What do all of these factors lead to?

🔻The efforts of the media in Ukraine create a feeling of a massively supported "people's war". This makes it possible to achieve total tacit approval of the current policy and the leveling of any protests.

🔻In addition to propaganda mechanisms, the Ukrainian authorities are actively using repressive mechanisms and security forces. With the help of the carrot and stick method, the Zelensky regime has so far ensured a constant influx of conscripts into the Ukrainian army.

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