About UAH 100 billion allocated to Defense Ministry in 2015, - Yatseniuk

Cabinet will not cut financing the military authority.

As reported by Censor.NET, this was announced by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arsenii Yatseniuk on his Facebook page.

"Our armed forces have to fully comply with NATO logistics and standarts, and Ukrainian soldiers have to be appropriately skilled and trained," he wrote.

"This year the government has allocated nearly UAH 100 billion (about $4.7 billion) to finance the Defense Ministry, and we will not cut financing the military authority," Yatseniuk said.