Editing Economy of Ukraine (section)

====Defence industry====
{{Further|Defense industry of Ukraine}}

[[File:BM Oplot, Kyiv 2018, 04.jpg|thumb|A [[T-84|BM Oplot]], produced by [[Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau|KMDB]]]]

[[Defense industry of Ukraine|Ukraine's defence industry]] is organised around [[Ukrainian Defense Industry|Ukroboronprom]], a state owned conglomerate of over 130 companies. These companies include Soviet era giants such as [[Ivchenko-Progress]] aircraft design bureau that was opened in 1945, to newer companies such as [[RPC Fort]] which came into existence in the 1990s. Ukraine is among the top 10 arms exporters in the world.<ref name="Interfax-Ukraine"/>

The signing of recent large contracts may put Ukraine into 6th place among biggest arms traders, after the United States, Russia, France, Germany, and Israel.<ref name="Interfax-Ukraine">{{cite web|url=http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/60596/|title=Ukraine may become world's sixth biggest arms trader|publisher=[[Kyiv Post]]|date=2010-02-27}}</ref> The output of Ukrainian defence plants grew 58% in 2009, with largest growth reported by aircraft builders (77%) and ship builders (71%).<ref name="Interfax-Ukraine"/>

In 2013, Ukraine's defence sector manufactured a total of [[Ukrainian hryvnia|₴]]11.7 billion worth of goods, ₴10 billion of which were exported. In the first 9 months of 2014 Ukraine's defence sector produced a record ₴13 billion worth of goods. The increase was largely due to government orders for the war in Donbas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukrinform.ua/rus/news/ukroboronprom_za_9_mesyatsev_izgotovil_produktsii_bolshe_chem_za_ves_proshliy_god_1676552|publisher=Ukrinform|title=Укроборонпром за 9 месяцев изготовил продукции больше, чем за весь прошлый год|access-date=21 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810202336/http://www.ukrinform.ua/rus/news/ukroboronprom_za_9_mesyatsev_izgotovil_produktsii_bolshe_chem_za_ves_proshliy_god_1676552|archive-date=10 August 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>