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Ukrainian Defense Ministry has sent to the draft budget for 2016 its request for UAH 86.95 billion, Head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Communications and Press Department Oksana Havryliuk said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.
"The amount tendered includes UAH 46.5 billion for the maintenance of the Ukrainian armed forces within the limit of expenditures, UAH 790 million at the expense of special fund revenues and expenditures and UAH 39.6 billion as an additional budget request," said Havryliuk.
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