KIEV, May 19 – Employees of the Makarov Pivdenny Machine Building Plant (Pivdenmash, Dnipropetrovsk) have asked the Ukrainian authorities to take urgent measures to guarantee state orders for missile production.

An open address of the plant's employees to the Ukrainian president, parliament, government, National Security and Defense Council and authorities in Dnipropetrovsk region was published by the press service of Pivdenmash.