KYIV, Aug 16 - The Ukrainian Armed Forces need funding at the level of at least UAH 112 billion in 2019, Chief of the General Staff and Commander-In-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Viktor Muzhenko has said.

"We calculated that this should be the amount of about UAH 112 billion. This is the minimum need for the army. Now we are given just UAH 82 billion, which is clearly not enough to keep the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a combat-ready state. I'm not talking about capacity building," he said in an interview with BBC Ukrainian.