KYIV, Sept 14 – Ukraine's draft state budget for 2018 envisages the allocation of UAH 163 billion for the security and defense of the state, President Petro Poroshenko has said.
"In accordance with the proposals of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, it is planned to spend UAH 163 billion in 2018 on the needs of national security and defense. This is 20 billion [hryvnias] more than this year," the presidential press service quoted him as saying at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) on Wednesday, September 13.
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