Yatseniuk: Military expenditures of Ukraine is about 5, 8 million dollars a day
According to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk, budget spending on security forces needs to be around 5, 8 million dollars a day. " Our security forces spending huge - probably 95 million (5, 8 million dollars - approx. OPINION) a day. This is a huge burden on the state budget of Ukraine ", - quotes RIA " Novosti " message Yatsenyuk in Brussels at a press conference the European policy centre (EPC) in Ukraine. Remember, first Tuesday some media said that the Ukrainian government is considering a draft state budget, involving loans amounting to about eleven billion dollars. The expenditure budget assumes that the army, the state plans to spend fifteen billion hryvnia (about $ 1 billion), the Ministry of internal Affairs - almost 21 billion UAH (1, 3 billion), the national guard under - UAH 2 billion (127 million). On the First day of the week, the European Commissioner for European neighbourhood policy and the negotiations on the extension Johannes Hahn said that the new package of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine from the EU is able to be created only after the onset of the European Commission (EC) specific results of the Kyiv reforms. On the same day, the Deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Valeriy Chaly acknowledged that Ukraine without additional support of the international monetary Fund (IMF) will not be able to cross the " financial gap ". First it was rumored that the experts of the international monetary Fund has considered the results of the work of the government Arseniy Yatseniuk as disappointing, because Ukraine failed many recommended by the IMF " structural beacons ". Last week it appeared that the government of Ukraine requires fifteen billion dollars in excess of the approved international monetary Fund loan in 17 billion To prevent the collapse of the national financial system and economy. In early December, Ukraine has received the second tranche of macro-financial assistance of the European Union in the amount of five hundred million euros. the 1st tranche of aid to Ukraine from the European Union in the amount of five hundred million euros was transferred in June 2014. To receive foreign financial assistance to Ukraine had very quickly to reduce budget expenditures. If the cost of the army and weapons in Ukraine, on the contrary, increase. Ukraine is in a difficult political crisis that affects so not the best state of the economy and its budget. The national Bank of Ukraine did not exclude inflation to 19% in 2014. In addition, the lack of the capital budget of Ukraine has reached 3, UAH 2 billion (274 million). While the decline of Ukraine's GDP in the first six months of this year compared With the corresponding period of 2013 amounted to 3%. Since mid-April, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine " special operation " To suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Military is actively used heavy machinery and military aircraft and helicopters. Mentions a large number of killed and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of the homes of residents and infrastructure.