President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed decree on the additional funding of the security and defense sector, the presidential press service has reported."Enact the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine dated July 10, 2017 'On urgent measures to finance the needs of national security and defense of Ukraine in 2017,'" the decree reads.As reported, the NSDC decided on July 10, to recommend that the government finance the needs of the security and defense sector in the amount of about UAH 9 billion in 2017.
Turchynov specified later that the total amount of the additional funding included about UAH 3 billion from the general fund of the national budget and UAH 6 billion from its special fund.
