Aivaras Abromavicius: ‘I wanted to prove UkrOboronProm can be managed dutifully’

Ukraine’s state-run defense production giant UkrOboronProm — which has been a breeding pool of immense corruption for years — is again facing a moment of truth.

After a year in office, the concern’s director-general Aivaras Abromavicius, who is deemed by many a strong advocate of reforms and war on corruption, was finally dismissed by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Oct. 6.