{"id":1417588,"date":"2026-07-14T15:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/smetanin-resigns-as-ceo-of-ukroboronprom\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:50:45","slug":"smetanin-resigns-as-ceo-of-ukroboronprom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/smetanin-resigns-as-ceo-of-ukroboronprom\/","title":{"rendered":"Smetanin resigns as CEO of Ukroboronprom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>German Smetanin announced that on July 14 he will be retiring as General Director of the Ukrainian Defense Industry Joint Stock Company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He wrote about his decision on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p> Smetanin did not disclose the reasons for his resignation. However, he thanked his colleagues and partners with whom he worked on developing Ukraine&#8217;s defense industry.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I&#8217;d like to especially thank my colleagues, who have helped me find solutions on numerous occasions, often in the most time-sensitive situations, and sometimes literally overnight, cobbling together, turning, or welding something: the Ukrainian Council of Gunsmiths, the League of Defense Enterprises of Ukraine, the Technological Forces of Ukraine, the Federation of Employers of Ukraine, Brave1, and all those involved in working together,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p> Smetanin wished the future director and the company&#8217;s staff success in further fulfilling their state mission.<\/p>\n<p> Herman Smetanin headed the Ukrainian Defense Industry twice: in 2023\u20132024 and from August 2025. From 2024 to 2025, he served as Minister for Strategic Industries in the government of Denys Shmyhal.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Smetanin announced that on July 14 he will be retiring as General Director of the Ukrainian Defense Industry Joint Stock Company. He wrote about his decision on Telegram. Smetanin did not disclose the reasons for his resignation. However, he thanked his colleagues and partners with whom he worked on developing Ukraine&#8217;s defense industry. &#8220;I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":980796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1417588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}