You're reading: Poroshenko enacts NSDC’s decision of state defense order for 2017-2019

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has enacted a decision by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) dated Jan. 27 on “The main indicators of the state defense order for 2017 and 2018, 2019.”

Presidential decree No. 31/2017 was published on the Ukrainian president’s official website on Feb. 13.

Poroshenko put the NSDC secretary in charge of supervising the implementation of the NSDC’s decision.

The decree shall come into force from the date of its publication.

As reported, on Jan. 27, the NSDC considered and approved the key indicators of the state defense order for 2017.

The NSDC instructed the Ukrainian government to approve the main indicators of the state defense order passed at the meeting, taking into account this year’s budget expenditures.

The priorities of the state defense order include the development and production of new weapons and military equipment, the development of domestic defense industry, the increase of government loan guarantees and the simplification of the mechanism of their provision to economic entities, which are involved in the execution of the state defense order.

In particular, the state defense order envisages the provision of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other paramilitary units with new weapons and military equipment: modern missile and artillery systems, armored missile boats, unmanned aerial vehicles, armored vehicles, electronic warfare and radars, modern means of communications and control, reconnaissance equipment for artillery units, means of observation, targeting and night vision as well as modernization of aircraft, helicopters and other military equipment, and the like.

In addition, the NSDC endorsed the launch of the state targeted program for the development of ammunition production and military chemistry for the period until 2021.

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers was instructed taking into account the underfunding of the state defense order in 2016 to make appropriate adjustments to the state targeted program for the development of weapons and military equipment for the period until 2020.