With arms forces of Ukraine will receive high-precision weapons, said the head of the Ministry of defense of the country Valery geletey during a visit to the factories of the military-industrial complex in Kiev.
According to the news service channel ", in addition to weapons, President of the army announced the appearance in the Arsenal of the military power of Ukraine of automated control systems and communications.
" We have 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 read
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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