The reform program Strategy 2020 provides that Ukraine should become 'a military state,' increasing its military expenditures from 1 percent of the GDP to 5 percent, Dmytro Shymkiv, deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, said.
‘We are operating under the assumption that Ukraine should become a military state,’ he said at a public debate on Strategy 2020 in Kyiv on Sept. 29.
The reform program envisions an increase of military funding from 1 percent of the GDP in 2014 to 5 percent in 2020.
The reforms also envision an increase in the number of servicemen in Ukraine from 2.8 people to 7 people per 1,000 people, he said.
Shymkiv also said the defense and national security reform is a key reform envisioned by the program Strategy 2020.
