1563: Oleksandr Kamyshin Quotes 2023–2024: Building the ‘Arsenal of the Free World,’ Ammunition Output & Defense Industrialization
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/10/22
How do Kamyshin’s statements on scaling munitions, export-led defense manufacturing, and wartime industrial policy map Ukraine’s shift from arms importer to sovereign producer at scale?
2023: “We’re really focusing on making Ukraine the arsenal of the free world.”
2023: “For the next decades, defence should be the major industry in Ukraine. After the war it should be our core export product.”
2023: “We were branding ourselves as the breadbasket of Europe, now we want to rebrand as the arsenal of the free world.”
2023: “We have agreements with two leading American companies to jointly produce, in Ukraine, 155-calibre ammunition.”
2024: Ukraine this year plans “to considerably increase ammunition production.”
2024: “We want to get as many people as we can out of the front lines and put in machines.”
2024: “You will see more of them on the frontline… That’s one of the game changers we expect in the nearest 12 months.”
2024: “We are looking for another $10 [billion] to $15 billion.”
2024: “You have to pump the maximum amount of money you can into drones.”
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