KIEV, Oct. 15 – President Petro Poroshenko has commissioned newly appointed Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak with developing a strategy of national security and defense, and changing Ukraine's military doctrine, the state program for the development of the Armed Forces, weapons and military equipment.

"Based on the current military and political situation, the Defense Ministry has been instructed to provide basic documents of defense planning. These include the development of the national security and defense strategy; the changes to the military doctrine need to be urgently developed as the present circumstances give us a lot of reasons to do so," he said when presenting the new defense minister in Kiev on Wednesday.