Poroshenko calls Russia main military threat to Ukraine in long term
KYIV. Jan 27 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said at a meeting of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council in Kyiv on Wednesday that Russia is and will remain the main military threat in the long term.
"The Russian Federation, an aggressor country, is, and, unfortunately, will remain, the main military threat in the long-term historical prospect," the presidential press service quoted Poroshenko as saying on Wednesday.
He said that Ukraine needs a new military administrative division.
The new military administrative division will make it possible to enhance the effectiveness of implementing programs of mobilization training and to optimize the system of the state's territorial defense with reference to the experience that Ukraine has acquired in the past two years, Poroshenko explained.
"To date, this division has been based on the notion that the lion's share of troops of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and other military units were concentrated at our Western border where all conditions for forces placement had been created," Poroshenko said, adding that the eastern frontier was not even demarcated and that Ukraine in fact had no organized line of defense along its eastern border, for which the country has paid a very high price.
According to reports, the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council led by Poroshenko is currently considering three documents: the draft 2016 State Defense Order, Ukraine's new military administrative division, and the strategy for the country's security in cyber space.