Even more 8 thousand samples of weapons and military equipment will go in equipped with weapons forces of Ukraine Before the end of this year, said on Wednesday the leader of the country Petro Poroshenko.

"Before the end of the current year is expected to buy and put Another 8500 samples of armament and military equipment ", - wrote Poroshenko in your own Twitter.

according to him, the budget for 2016 will be provided a wage increase to the military, and among them the contract.

As said yesterday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the government this year has allocated for the country's defense more than 90 billion hryvnias (almost $ 4 billion - ed.).

according to him, in 2015, the Ukrainian state enterprise "Ukroboronprom" gave the troops more than 4 thousand units of new and modernized weapons and equipment in 36 times more, than last year. The Prime Minister added that at the same time with the equipment of the army were to raise salaries of present hostilities in the East of Ukraine, and also a system for the rehabilitation of those who returned from the conflict zone.

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