KIEV, Jan. 27 – President Petro Poroshenko insists on fully equipping tank units of the Ukrainian armed forces with retrofitted and overhauled tanks by modernizing the existing T-64 and T-80 tanks.

Speaking at a National Security and Defense Council meeting on Friday, Poroshenko said there had been a heated discussion in drawing up the state defense order as to what kind of military hardware needs to be procured, the presidential press service reported on Friday.