KIEV, Feb. 22 – The value of orders placed by Pivdenne Design Bureau in 2015 at Pivdenmash (both based in Dnipropetrovsk) is estimated at over UAH 430 million, managers of the bureau have told Interfax-Ukraine.

"As part of the joint plan on stabilization of the Pivdenmash's economy in the conditions of the abruption of traditional cooperation with Russia, in 2015 and January-February 2016 Pivdenne Design Bureau placed orders at Pivdenmash and financed works worth almost UAH 480 million. Only from July as of today Pivdenmash was financed by the bureau by over UAH 220 million as part of the order to fulfill works of a good commercial potential," Head of the working group for financial and economic issues at the bureau Oleksandr Kamyshov said.