The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (NSDC) has said that the 2016 state budget should include at least UAH 100 billion in security and defence spending, totalling 5% of GDP.
President Petro Poroshenko has thanked the foreign states for providing non-lethal defence weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine announcing a start of such arrivals.
If the American President signs the bill on the U.S. defence budget for 2016, which Congress passed last Wednesday, the assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $300 million might be provided in the near future, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in USA Valeriy Chaly has expressed this opinion, Ukrinform reports.