Militia of power combustion

The scandal around Ukraine and the DPRK can be in the hands of those who opposed the supply of lethal weapons to Kyiv

The other day, The New York Times suggested: the success of launching North Korea missiles was provided by engines on the black market of engines - it is possible, from the Ukrainian plant "Yuzhmash" from the city of Dnieper, the former Dnepropetrovsk.

“During the Cold War, the factory produced the most deadly missiles in the Soviet arsenal, including giant R-36-M (Satan). He remained one of the main manufacturers of Russian missiles even after Ukraine received independence, ”the newspaper wrote. “After 2014, the Russians refused to renew the nuclear potential and the removal from the Yanukovych power. The power of the plant was not used in full force, it was mired in unpaid accounts, the morale of the employees fell, ”reported The New York Times. And she developed her version of Ukrainian-Korean cooperation with the help of Michael Elleman, an expert on missiles from the International Institute of Strategic Research.

Ellman reasoned: “South Mash” could turn into a secret supplier of engines for North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles. In July, weapons testing, which threatens cities in the United States, took place twice. “It seems that the engines arrived from Ukraine - perhaps illegal. The big question is how many ( the engines arrived. - OM ) and do Ukrainians help them now? I am very worried, ”the expert shared fears.

He also recalled that the UN investigators established: six years ago, North Korea was already trying to steal secret documents regarding Ukrainian missile systems. The attackers were detained and testified. The guarantees that Pyongyang will again not try to get what is poorly lied in the post -revolutionary, but not free from corruption to Ukraine, no one gave.

An important point.

The RD-250 engines, around which the scandal broke out, said Michael Elleman, invented in Russia, they could save in the warehouses of the Russian Energomash missile enterprise. But for some reason, all the attention went to the "Yuzhmash",

Which quickly reacted to the publication in The New York Times.

Application "Yuzhmash" (Ukraine) regarding the article in Nyt
“The facts set forth in publications are not true. In particular, Yuzhmash is not only not the main manufacturer of missiles for the Russian Federation, but also does not supply in the Russian Federation any rockets, nor their details and assembly units, including missile engines. The assumptions of the authors of the publication and the “expert” cited by them regarding the possible connection of Ukraine with the progress of the DPRK in the development of missile technologies are not related to reality. “South Mash” has never previously had and now has nothing to do with the North Korean missile programs of cosmic or defense.

Military missiles and missile systems during the years of independence were not produced and not produced.

The only serial engine, supplied in recent years for export (RD-843 to Italy for the European Vega launch vehicle), is designed to launch and work in an open space and in its characteristics (including traction) unusable for the use of military ballistic missiles in military missiles. "

The final part of the statement was dedicated to the press, greedy for “discrediting“ Yuzhmash ”and Ukraine fantasies without attempts to clarify the information directly at the enterprise.”

The journalist of the publication "Country.ua" Svetlana Kryukova clarified the information. I published a brief, obviously taken on the phone, commentary on Alexander Degtyarev, general designer of KB Yuzhnoye . “I do not exclude that somewhere they could make a copy of our engine,” the general designer admitted. And he repeated: - I am sure that none of our employees is involved in the help of creating a rocket engine in the DPRK. And our engines are highly appreciated and used all over the world. ”

A month ago, in July, the plant had to refute another article. The fact that, fighting for survival, he sells technology to China, who wants to conquer the moon.

The Secretary of the NRBU Alexander Turchinov also spoke: “This information, most likely, was provoked by Russian special services ... Ukraine never supplied missile engines and any missile technologies to North Korea.”

Observers indicate the fact that the Ukrainian, as well as the Russian trace in the North Korean topic, specialists began to notice together and at the same time. On August 9, an interview with Robert Schmukera, a professor of technical university in Munich, appeared on the pages of Deutsche Welle, an interview with the Robert Schmukera Engineer . He came to the conclusion: the main components of the missiles that the DPRK demonstrates from the post -Soviet space.

Is the current story similar to the emergency of the 2001 model with the Kolchuga radar complexes and supposedly their supplies to Iraq bypassing the UN sanctions? The former “Red Director” of “Yuzhmash”, no one believed to President Kuchma then. And although the Americans did not find the Ukrainian "chain mail" in Iraq, the sediment remained. Later, Kuchma fell into it, crushed by the load of other heavy accusations. Parallels with the fate of President Poroshenko have not yet spent. But a scandal in the hands of those who opposed the supply of lethal weapons to Kyiv. This power, they say, is reselling everything to the left.

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