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Ukrainian army gets over 1,300 units of military equipment in 2016

Xinhua, December 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have received more than 1,300 units of new and modernized military equipment since the start of 2016, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.

"Only in the past week, the state enterprises have handed over 858 units of the main armament to the Defence Ministry. They include modernized armored vehicles, new cargo vehicles, thermal imaging cameras, sniper rifles and complexes of cryptographic protection," Olexiy Chernobay, the ministry's spokesman, told reporters during a media briefing.

Besides, the Ukrainian army received some 100,000 items of ammunition this year, Chernobay added.

The figures marked the notable decrease from 2015, when the East European country purchased a total of 3,756 units of armaments and military equipment and nearly 402,500 items of ammunition for its Armed Forces.

In the previous two years, Ukraine has increased its military spending in response to the conflict in the eastern part of the country between government troops and pro-independence insurgents.

The conflict, which started in April 2014 and claimed some 10,000 lives so far, has slightly eased this year despite sporadic clashes. Enditem