{"id":8672,"date":"2026-09-02T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/8672\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:08:12","slug":"ukroboronprom-competition-announced-for-position-of-ceo-following-smetanins-resignation-the-new-voice-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/8672\/","title":{"rendered":"UkrOboronProm \u2014 Competition Announced for Position of CEO Following Smetanin&#8217;s Resignation \/ The New Voice of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/183962d7ff07f36ba1fa01394fae378c.png\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"An international recruitment firm will conduct the selection process for the position of CEO of UkrOboronProm (Photo: UkrOboronProm JSC)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content__head_img-info\">\n                An international recruitment firm will conduct the selection process for the position of CEO of UkrOboronProm (Photo: UkrOboronProm JSC)\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The supervisory board of UkrOboronProm (Ukrainian Defense Industry), Ukraine&#8217;s state-owned defense conglomerate, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/UOP_Official\/1712\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" pubtag=\"0\">announced<\/a> an open, transparent competition for the company&#8217;s chief executive position on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Candidate selection and preliminary evaluation will be handled by the Ukrainian office of Amrop Partnership, an international executive search firm, UkrOboronProm announced on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Amrop Partnership was selected following an open procurement process. The firm specializes in executive search and leadership consulting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Amrop Ukraine began searching for potential candidates on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ukroboronprom CEO Herman Smetanin resigned on July 14. He had led the company for a second term starting in August 2025. Before that, Smetanin had previously headed UkrOboronProm from June 2023 to September 2024, and in the interim served as Ukraine&#8217;s minister of strategic industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the time, Smetanin did not give a specific reason for his resignation, but it came after an ammunition depot explosion at a UkrOboronProm facility in Vyshneve, in Kyiv Oblast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The heads of two state-owned enterprises were dismissed over violations of legal requirements and safety rules for ammunition storage. It was later reported that a court ordered pre-trial detention for senior UkrOboronProm managers suspected of negligence in connection with the ammunition detonation case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vyshneve was the hardest-hit town in Kyiv Oblast during a Russian attack overnight into July 6. The strikes and resulting fires destroyed buildings along five streets and damaged dozens of homes and infrastructure facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Eight people were reported killed and 29 injured, and about 600 people were temporarily evacuated due to the risk of secondary detonations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold\">Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewVoiceUkraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheNewVoiceUkraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and<br \/>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLeesQswxLnIAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An international recruitment firm will conduct the selection process for the position of CEO of UkrOboronProm (Photo: UkrOboronProm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,2136,5131,5132,461,2135],"class_list":["post-8672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-defence-industry","tag-herman-smetanin","tag-job-vacancy","tag-managers","tag-ukrainian-defense-industry","tag-ukroboronprom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}