Ukraine president pledges $3 billion to rearm military
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KIEVAug 24, 2014 - 12:00 am GMT+3
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Aug 24, 2014 12:00 am
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Sunday promised to spend some $3.0 billion to reequip the country's military over the next few years.
"From 2015 to 2017 we are planning to allocate more than UAH 40 billion ($3.0 billion, 2.3 billion euros) to rearmament," Poroshenko said in a speech ahead of an Independence Day parade in Kiev.
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