The Ukrainian army Before the end of the year will receive not less than 40 thousand cars, about 300 armored vehicles, not less than 30 thousand missiles and ammunition, said Deputy defense Minister Petro mekhed.
before Tuesday mekhed said that the Ministry of defence of Ukraine has completed work on projects of strategic defence planning documents, for example, the military doctrine and the concept of the state target defensive program of development of arms and military equipment for 2015-2020. In March, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a law to increase the number of military power the country with 184 thousand To 250 thousand people.
"Before the end of the year in the armed forces is expected to deliver at least 40 thousand cars and not less than 300 armored vehicles, not less than 30 thousand missiles and ammunition, not less than 300 observation devices and not less than 3 thousand units of small arms ", - mehed at a press conference on Tuesday.
He added that for the period from January of this year in the Ukrainian army had brought no less than 266 thousand of missiles and ammunition and about 1200 samples of arms and military equipment. According to him, new and modernized weapons and equipment come in equipped with weapons forces from the plants of the Ukrainian defense industry.
in 2014 in Ukraine were 3 waves of mobilization in the army. In 2015 also planned 3 waves of mobilization, two of them have been completed, the sixth will last Until August 17. The Ukrainian authorities intend to allocate homeland security and defense in 2015 of about $ 4 billion. According to information from the Ministry of defence, the defence budget of Ukraine in 2015 is about $ 2 billion, or 2, 7% of GDP, in 1, 7 times more than in the previous year. At the end of may, the country's leader Petro Poroshenko has signed a new strategy of national security, the implementation of which will require the annual payment of the security sector and defence level is More than 5% of GDP.
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