The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree, which entered into effect the decision of the Council of 12 September on the package of measures to strengthen the defense of the country, for example, an increase in defence spending in 2015 to 3% of GDP. " in the sphere of financial security sector security and defense to the government, for example, is committed to urgently finalize the draft state budget of Ukraine in 2015, with the priority of payment of military programs. For example, provides funding needs of national defense at the level of More than 3% of GDP per year, according to the report, RIA " Novosti ". Currently, according to the received information of the program, the average is 1, 02% of GDP. The Ukrainian authorities in connection with the hostilities in the Donbass want to download defence industry new orders. So, the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk have said before, that the government is ready to allocate not less than 76 million dollars in the form of government guarantees for the purchase and repair of military equipment. At the end of July, the Ukrainian Parliament amended the state budget for the current year, which include the allocation of 9, UAH 1 billion in additional funding for security forces and 1, 9 billion on infrastructure rehabilitation Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Later Yatsenyuk said that the funds required for the purchase of military equipment for the Ukrainian military in the area of military operations, were identified and listed, but the military doesn't use them at full strength. Before that, Finance Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Shlapak said that protracted " special operation " in the East of Ukraine led to the exhaustion of all the funds that were allocated for its implementation.
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