With arms forces of Ukraine will purchase about a thousand armored personnel carriers, said Wednesday at the press-conference the press-Secretary of the information centre of the Council of national security and defense of Ukraine Vladimir Chepoy.

" with weapons of forces will carry out a comparative test BTR-3E1 and BTR-4E ( " His " ), to choose the best for use in the area ARO", " writes the Ukrainian news Agency.

Chepoy said that " all will be purchased about a thousand pieces of various mechanisms ". He said that " it is also considering purchasing lightly armoured wheeled armored " Dozor-B ".

the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, first promised that the government is At present the most important is to make defensive army.

Kyiv holds mid April special military operation to suppress the independence supporters in the East of Ukraine, do not recognise the legality of the new Ukrainian authorities that came to power in the result of the February coup d'etat. The most acute confrontation was observed in Slavyansk in the Northern part of Donetsk region, but mainly in the neighbouring Kramatorsk and in Mariupol in the South region. In the Russian capital this special operation, which has already led to numerous casualties on both sides and among them among the peaceful residents, called punitive and campaigning Kiev immediately to stop her.

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