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21 of October, 19:52

Poroshenko: Ukraine will order precision-guided weapons and cruise missiles
The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has ordered to be included in the state defense order for the next year the production of the state enterprise " Production Association southern machine-building plant named Makarov ", as well as among them - precision weapons, informs the press service of the President on Tuesday.

" I charge to adjust in the state defense order to provide financing for the manufacturing of high-precision weapons, missiles with wings of the complex, which will provide tactical weapons, " said the President during his working trip to Dnipropetrovsk.

Poroshenko said that government procurement of high-precision weapons has not been since 2009." We must be sure that our army with weapons forces, their equipment correspond to the best world standards, " he said.

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 more than 76 million dollars in the form of government guarantees for the purchase and repair of military equipment. Head Petro Poroshenko noted that the government will increase support of the defense complex and the army. According to him, the state has put the economy on a war footing.

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 fifteen October, the victims of the conflict were more than 3, 7 thousands of civilians, more than 9 thousand were injured body. With the mediation of the OSCE and Russia agreed a truce with the 5 September. In General, it is observed, however, the parties periodically accuse each loved one in its violation.

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