KIEV, July 15 – The Ukrainian aviation industry is in serious crisis, and in the near future the only way to prolong its existence would be integrate with Russian producers, Valentyn Badrak, director of the Ukrainian Center for Army Conversion and Disarmament Studies, said in an article published in Dzerkalo Tyzhdnia weekly newspaper.

"The rapidly changing market, traditional inflexibility of Ukrainian officials, the fears of the state about allowing private capital to the management of the aviation industry have lead to an unprecedented crisis in domestic aircraft building," Badrak said.