комітет Верховної Ради з питань національної безпеки, оборони та розвідки
The Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence is a standing committee of the Ukrainian parliament responsible for legislation in the areas of national security, defense policy, the military-industrial complex, and intelligence and counterintelligence services. It drafts and reviews relevant bills, hears reports from the heads of security and defense agencies, and oversees the financing of defense programmes. Its chair is a member of parliament elected by the Verkhovna Rada on the nomination of the parliamentary factions.
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Ukraine's PM says Cabinet will finalise booking-system overhaul this week, insists critical enterprises unaffected
Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky told BBC News Ukraine on 19 October that the Cabinet of Ministers will finalise this week changes to the conscription deferment (booking) system aimed at curbing large-scale abuses, while guaranteeing that genuinely critical enterprises will keep booking workers as before. He warned that monthly bookings and deferrals have been running into tens of thousands and, if the trend continues, "absolutely everyone" will soon be booked. The statement comes as parliament, the Ministry of Defence and business groups push back against an earlier draft that proposed cutting booking limits for the defence-industrial complex and energy sector from 100% to 85%.
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Ukraine's Defence Ministry confirms payment delays to manufacturers under 'eBally' program
Ukraine's Ministry of Defence acknowledged delays in paying defence manufacturers for equipment supplied under the 'eBally' (єБали) digital bonus program, calling them technical and blaming planned refinancing through EU credit funds and upcoming changes to the points system. The head of the Ukrainian Council of Arms Makers said debt to individual manufacturers ranges from 24 million to hundreds of millions of hryvnias, hitting small companies hardest.