Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Yezhel has said that the ministry's central staff will be reduced by 30%.
Yezhel announced this at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on Monday, the Defense Ministry’s press service reported on Monday.
"The ceiling for the number of servicemen and civil servants of the central apparatus of the Ministry will be reduced from 1,100 to 770 people, including 74 military posts," the Defense Minister has said.
Yezhel also noted that the Defense Ministry prepared and submitted to the Cabinet, the draft regulation, prepared pursuant to the president’s decree No. 1085 of Dec. 9, 2010 on the optimization of the system of central executive government agencies.
