Poroshenko said that the U.S. Senate has approved $ APU $500 million
MOSCOW, 19 Sep — RIA Novosti. The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the U.S. Senate approved the allocation of $ 500 million to support Ukraine in security and defense.
Meanwhile, earlier it was reported that the U.S. Senate on Monday approved a draft defense budget for the 2018 fiscal year in the amount of 692 billion dollars.
According to the approved budget, in part military assistance to Ukraine, provided $ 150 million (last year was 350 million). In this case you will have available only $ 75 million of this amount and the remaining funds should be a separate resolution of the Senate. Also, the bill contains a promise to help Ukraine in strengthening cyber security, but without a specific commitment from the American side.
“The U.S. Senate approved the draft “Law on the U.S. budget for national defence in 2018″. According to which, it is planned to allocate 500 000 000 dollars to support Ukraine in security and defense spheres,” Poroshenko wrote on his official page in social network Facebook.
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According to him, Ukraine will be provided with “lethal weapons of a defensive nature”. Also, according to him, the bill included provisions “allowing the use of funds in the US defense budget to rehabilitate in medical institutions of the United States wounded Ukrainian soldiers.”
For the first time at the legislative level it is proposed to provide Ukraine the following defensive tools: radar air defense and surveillance of the surface situation; naval mine; the ships of coastal actions and coast guard.Peter Presenteraient Ukraine