Kiev
On February 6, the General Director of the Kiev-based Aeronautical Scientific-Technical Complex (ANTK) Antonov, Dmitri Simonovich Kiva, was the victim of what had been initially reported as “an attack from a group of hooligans” that occurred in the entryway to his home. Kiva suffered what is described as “a severe blow to the head” and has been described as “in serious condition and in an unconscious state” in hospital.
Antonov is the only one of the major aerospace industrial design bureaus that was located outside of Russia during Soviet times. The company has become the nucleus of Ukraine’s aviation industry, but it has suffered from a lack of state funding, plus Russia reneging on agreements to cooperate with Ukrainian industry on several joint programs.
