The meeting of the Council of national security and defence (NSDC) of Ukraine will be held in the first day of the week, it will address the Issue of the defense budget for the next year, said Deputy Prime Minister on humanitarian issues and the Minister of culture of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kirilenko at the conciliatory Council of leaders of parliamentary factions on the first day of the week. "The second Question to which no answer is the defense budget, a very large additional applications. Today will be a meeting of the Council of national security and defense, and there's this Question must be resolved, " - said Kirilenko. first it was claimed that the defense Ministry of Ukraine hopes to highlight to your needs in 2016 about 87 billion hryvnia (about 4, 1 billion dollars), which is two times more than was allocated for defense in 2015. The Director of the division of social and humanitarian policy of the Ministry of defense of Ukraine Valentyn Fedichev last weekend said that the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers supported the increase in the defense budget in 2016 to 5% of GDP. According to him, in 2015 was allocated 45 billion UAH for financing military power. Fedichev also clarified that if in September 2014, the Ukrainian military had to own up to 50 combat-ready battalions, in September 2015, this figure had reached 150. The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass discussed during the meeting in Minsk of the contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.