KIEV, July 29 – Ukraine expects to receive 1,240 Javelin portable anti-tank missiles from the U.S., President Petro Poroshenko said.

"We're looking for just 1,240 Javelin missiles, and this is absolutely fair," Poroshenko said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

According to Poroshenko, the number 1,240 has special significance as that was the number of nuclear warheads Ukraine gave up under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, signed by the U.S., the UK and Russia.