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Petro Poroshenko: Foreign soldiers around our borders are like locusts

Petro Poroshenko: Foreign soldiers around our borders are like locusts

Ukraine has no other choice but to strengthen the country's defence capacities.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said it yesterday in the Verkhovna Rada in an extraordinary address on the country's internal and external situation, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

“I think you all understand that we have no other choice but to increase military spending,” the president of Ukraine said.

“Defence Reform must also become part of tectonic change: army, intelligence, military industrial complex. The world has believed in the prospects of peace too much. We have believed in the 'perpetual peace' too early as well. Now we are reaping the bitter fruits of someone's aggressiveness and our irresponsible pacifism,” he stressed.

The head of state reminded the Verkhovna Rada about the upcoming discussion of the draft budget for 2015.

“I hope for our cooperation, patriotism, and I hope that today we will be able to give a proper response, including in the budget, to these threats. Foreign soldiers near our borders are like locusts. And in the coming years Ukraine has to rely primarily on the combat capability of its Armed Forces,” he noted.

“To do this, we must first invest funds and efforts in upgrading and reequipping the army with precision weapon, modern exploration and communication devices, new armor. We must increase the quantity of the army aviation,” the president thinks.

According to him, the country faced the inefficiency of the old system of logistics, technical and medical support in the ATO zone.

“We are changing it on the go - with broad involvement of volunteers not burdened with dead and sometimes just silly instructions of the World War I period. Those who can not cope are fired, those who stole should be imprisoned. Unavoidable punishment should be a key principle,” he noted.

According to him, the state defense order will be planned not for one year, but at least for three years to ensure the funding of military-industrial enterprises.

Commenting on the situation in Donbas, Poroshenko expressed his confidence that his Peace Plan, on which bases the Minsk protocol was made and signed, also by Russia, will finally work, although peace in Donbas will not mean the absence of a threat from Russia.

“Unfortunately, this threat is viewed in a long-term historical perspective and will continuously require great efforts and huge resources,” Poroshenko said.

The president added that no World War III would begin.

“One shouldn't frighten us with the World War III! In fact, nobody is going to begin it,” he said.

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