During a truce in the Ukrainian Donbass army should be the maximum provided military equipment, said the Head of the defense Ministry of Ukraine Valeriy geletey During a working visit to Zaporizhzhya, notified to the Department. He also said that the weapons will be tested in combat conditions.

" in the most of the short time required to repair And upgrade the 1st turn, planes, helicopters, radar zone ATO. During a truce Ukraine should provide the army with all necessary. All equipment will be tested in combat conditions. And that will be the assessment of the adoption And purchase of arms, " said geletey.

According to the Minister, that there is a certain part of the equipment, be prepared for shipping in the area ATO, today the Ministry of defense of Ukraine has already received from aircraft repair plants 8 aircraft And 13 engines.

the head of the defense Ministry also said that some radar interested countries-members of NATO." They are also needed, And I hope that the first samples get Ukrainian with weapons of power, " said geletey.

earlier the Head of the defense Ministry said On purchase high-precision weapons for the Ukrainian army." We already bought a lot of precision weapons And the techniques, which we did not have Earlier, automated control systems, communication systems, And more what we Previously had little, We must in the near future to equip our with weapons of force, " the Minister said.

in early autumn, the Head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the army expects the upgrades will occur more modern high-tech weapons. Speaking later at a military parade in Kiev, Poroshenko said that in the years 2015-2017 on modernization of the Ukrainian army And upgrade of military equipment will be allocated more than 3 billion dollars.


Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat residents. According to the UN on 3 October, the victims of the conflict were more than 3, 6 thousands of civilians, almost 8, 5 thousand were injured body. About the development of the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine

With the mediation of the OSCE And Russia agreed a truce September 5), and on the 19th of September was developed to implement the Memorandum of nine points. The text of the Memorandum was read after negotiations, the Ukrainian Ombudsman, the second Head of state Leonid Kuchma. For example, it is planned the development of a 30-kilometer buffer zone between the positions of the parties.

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