Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk at a meeting with the leadership of the main Directorate of the National guard of Ukraine said that in 2016 the country will launch a new line for the production of small arms ammunition.

"in the coming year (in Ukraine - ed.) will open a new production line of ammunition for small arms ", - quotes the message premiere the official Internet-portal of the Ukrainian government.

they say that the Issue was raised at one of the designated senior members of the national guard, who said that the production of munitions has been concentrated at the Lugansk cartridge factory.

According to Yatsenyuk, At this time already developed several projects for manufacture of munitions, spending will be " 20 to 200 million dollars."

Ukrainian Prime Minister plans to hold on the issue at a meeting with the leadership of " Ukroboronprom ". The question of possible production of rocket and artillery ammunition will be considered in separate consultations.

As said before Wednesday the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Kyiv will continue to increase defense spending.

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