Putin Says Economy To Rebound, Wants End To Ukraine Crisis
MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual end-of-year news conference on Thursday. Below are some of his comments. UKRAINEWe think the crisis should be solved, the sooner the.
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Ukraine Defence Boost: Country brings in conscription and pushes defence spending to 5% of GDP
President Petro Poroshenko has announced he has submitted to parliament a bill cancelling the country #39;s non-aligned status and that Ukraine will spend five percent of its 2015 budget on defence...
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KIEV Sat Dec 20, 2014 12:59pm EST
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addresses the session of the Polish parliament in Warsaw, December 17, 2014.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine plans to spend five percent of its budget or 86 billion hryvnia ($5.5 billion) on the army and on law enforcement in 2015 and to reintroduce compulsory military service, a top security official said on Saturday.
Pro-Russian separatism erupted in Ukraine's east in April, killing over 4,700 people. While violence has lessened in recent weeks, Kiev has said it must build up its military to counter any future threats in the east.
"Victory is the only option," the secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, Oleksander Turchynov, said at a meeting of security officials.
It is not known how much Ukraine spent on defense and security this year, but Turchynov said the plans for 2015 represent a "colossal" increase.
He said Ukrainians between the ages of 20 and 27 would be called up for 18 months of military service. President Petro Poroshenko earlier stressed that these recruits would not have to serve on the frontline.
The uprising by the separatists, who oppose central rule by Kiev and seek union with Russia, began a month after Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in March.
The pro-Western authorities in Kiev accuse Russia of orchestrating the uprising in the east after the ouster of a president sympathetic to Moscow. The Kremlin denies it is behind the revolt.
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