title: Ukraine
abstract: This chapter focuses on the challenges faced by the Ukrainian defence industry nowadays with a particular emphasis on the reforms of UkrOboronProm, the public consortium that gathers more than one hundred Ukrainian state-owned defence companies with 80,000 employees. UkrOboronProm was created in 2011 with the objective of facilitating cooperation with the Russian defence industry. However, in 2014, due to the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the support provided by Moscow to the separatists in