The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall take a decision to increase the number of military power of Ukraine, said the Advisor to the President, the head of the Department on intelligence and former head of the security service of Ukraine (SBU) Igor Smeshko. " We're almost six months in the war, and the army was, and still is. It (to take the decision to increase staff numbers of military personnel) required to do the Parliament, and not the head, " said Smeshko in the air " 5th channel ", reports TASS. At the end of September, the Deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Dmytro shymkiv in the process of public discussions presented by Petro Poroshenko reform program " Strategy - 2020 " said that for six years, Ukraine has become a " military state ". According to him, the reform of the defence and strengthening of public security is one of the key reforms in the " Strategy - 2020 ". He said that in the framework of this programme envisages an increase in pay for military spending to one percent of GDP in 2014, up to five percent of GDP in 2020. In this case, as said shymkiv, " Ukraine will increase the number of soldiers with 2, 8 to 7 people per thousand inhabitants ". The total number of military power of Ukraine in 2012 amounted to 184 thousand People, including up to 139 thousand Soldiers. The army was the fifth largest in the European Union. Developed by the previous Ukrainian government reform involved the reduction of the size of the army for five years to 70 thousand People. Now, according to official data, the service in the Ukrainian army are about 130 thousand Soldiers.
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