The supervisory board of Ukraine’s Protection Procurement Company (DPA) prolonged a 1-year contract to Maryna Bezrukova, the present director of the DPA, the company introduced on Jan. 21.
The contract extensions comes after Protection Minister Rustem Umerov walked again on plans to merge the Defense Procurement Agency (DPA) and the State Logistics Operator (DOT) into one company, following a NATO assertion mentioned that the 2 businesses must be saved separate and two separate supervisory boards established "to carry out their duties and supporting their independence and anti-corruption insurance policies."
Along with the contract extension, the board mentioned in an announcement that it had initiated a "complete audit of the Company's actions," which is able to concerned NATO's Worldwide Board of Auditors (IBAN).
Bezrukova, whose contract was prolonged by a unanimous vote, is a former worker of Ukraine’s power firm Ukrenergo, earlier than being appointed to move the DPA.
Separate boards had been arrange for Ukraine’s deadly and non-lethal procurement businesses, complying with NATO requirements, within the fall of 2024.
The protection procurement sector was reshaped in December 2023, aiming to fulfill NATO requirements. The DPA, first established in August 2022, was to focus solely on deadly support. In the meantime, the DOT was shaped to buy non-lethal support comparable to meals and clothes.
The Kyiv IndependentBoldizsar Gyori