“On a public plane, it is discussed that we plan to reduce defense spending and reduce some social benefits. It is not true. Next year, defense spending will even be increased, ”Interfax quoted Goncharuk as saying.
He noted that the cost of the Ministry of Defense will increase to 136.6 billion UAH. (about 360 billion rubles), remaining at the level of 5.4% of the total budget fund.
Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andrii Zagorodniuk said that for the reform of his department and the country's armed forces, "it is important to attract advisers from the United States."
At the end of September, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky made amendments to the law on defense, which gave the president the authority to approve the country's defense plan.