Ukraine plants to double production of tanks and APCs in 2015, Pres Poroshenko says

Addressing a meeting of servicemen and officials on the airfield near Kharkiv Dec. 6., Pres Petro Poroshenko said the armor contracts with tank-building plants will be doubled in 2015, Interfax reported Dec. 6.

The focus is on a new armored personnel vehicle which was modernized following its operation in Donbas, the president said.

Production of new Oplot tanks will also be increased, he said.

Simultaneously, Ukraine is in talks to buy modern weaponry currently not produced in Ukraine from its foreign partners, he said.

“We will never underestimate the need for a strong army,” Poroshenko assured at the ceremony of delivering a large amount of weaponry to the military.

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