Igor Khmury announced a special prosect with a detailed story about providing the Armed Forces with bulletproof vests - the media

To extend: during 2024, Igor Khmuri and the StopCor team conducted a large -scale investigation that swept a year of careful analysis, communications with market representatives and complex emotional experiences - from optimism to bitter disappointment. The essence of their work is the study of the supply of bulletproof vests for the Armed Forces. Since the beginning of independence, the issue of equipping the army has been a painful topic.

Even personal protective equipment for the Armed Forces was considered a deficit. ATO fighters met with only 1 213 bulletproof vests. Further, their numbers increased to 14,000, but it was still a drop in the sea against the background of real need, says UkrNUZ. After a full -scale invasion of 2022, the situation became critical. At that time, domestic manufacturers produced only 3-5 thousand bulletproof vests per month, which was insufficient to provide the army.

Against the backdrop of chaos in the first months of the war, volunteers bought bulletproof vests, while public procurement was accompanied by mistakes and corruption scandals. The military also faced the problem of outdated standards. Metal armoral plates without size remain in circulation. Only in the spring of 2023 the MOU adapted the requirements for purchases for the realities of war with the Russian Federation, journalists write.

"Despite the difficulties - rocket firing, logistics crisis and evacuation of enterprises - Ukrainian manufacturers were able to adapt and even started the production of ceramic slabs. In 2024, 5 out of 6 samples Turning it into a "state operator of the rear", which was to centralize the purchases. Loyalty to individual manufacturers.