About 86 billion hryvnia (About us $ 5 billion) will be incorporated in the budget of Ukraine for the next year on defense and national security, said the Secretary of the Council of national security and defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov after the meeting of the Council on the first day of the weekend.
" We have to go in conditions of total savings, when all the budgets of the ministries and departments are reduced. Alternatives can not be, " Turchynov said.
" From 86 billion - 80 billion (more than 4, 5 billion) will be designed in General figures budget by 6 billion (About $ 400 million), the government will issue state guarantees for the purchase of weapons, military equipment, need for military power material resources in the framework of the state defense order. That is 86 billion is a huge sum, " he continued.
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