The Ukrainian government has taken legal action against at least two Western military firms that have failed to fulfill equipment contracts, or offer a refund of fees paid by Kyiv to secure the deals.
The country’s Defense Ministry has been grappling with a series of procurement scandals as its troops continue their fight against a full-scale Russian invasion. Kyiv’s forces have become heavily reliant on Western weapons over 18 months of fighting.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said in a statement that 11 percent of all military contracts signed have been with foreign suppliers, and that “only a few of them had difficulties in fulfilling their obligations in full.”
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