KYIV, Jan 12 – Ukraine in 2024 focuses on the development of the defense-industrial complex and sets the task of creating joint defense enterprises with Western companies and localizing production of weapons, demining and other equipment, First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko has said.

"If we say defense industry, there are specific goals and objectives: this is the creation of five joint ventures with Western arms manufacturers," she said at a webinar by the Centre for Economic Strategy on Thursday.