KIEV, Feb. 4 – Zaporizhia-based engine-producer Motor Sich is to increase its supply of helicopter engines to Russia by 20% in 2009, CEO and General Director of the company Viacheslav Bohuslayev has said.

"We are planning to supply 400 engines this year," he told journalists in Kiev on Tuesday.

The Motor Sich chief confirmed plans to strengthen cooperation with Russian partners, in particular, this year's opening of an aircraft maintenance facility in Dubna for the Russian Defense Ministry's programs.