Kyiv and Astana are seeking ways to overcome complications in bilateral military-technical cooperation in the context of breach of Ukrainian-Russian defense cooperation, Ukraine's Charge d'Affaires in Kazakhstan Volodymyr Dzhydzhora has told journalists in Astana.

Asked about the progress of implementing the contract for the delivery of Ukrainian multi-purpose An-74-200 transport aircraft to the national guard of Kazakhstan, the Ukrainian diplomat specified the contract signed in 2014 for the supply of two An-74-200 aircraft to the Kazakh customer at this stage has been partially implemented. Its implementation is complicated by the breach of Ukrainian-Russian defense industrial cooperation in the conditions of Russian aggression against Ukraine.

"One aircraft has been delivered, the other one has been 80% built. Its building is suspended due to the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war and the termination of supply of Russian components to Kharkiv Aviation Plant," he said.

According to the official, the contract for the supply of Ukrainian aircraft to the Kazakh customer "was signed directly between the military unit and Kharkiv aircraft plant without any state guarantees." At the same time, according to him, after the plant joined Ukroboronprom state concern, "all decisions, both organizational and financial, are the responsibility of the governing structures."