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Ukrinform reports citing the Ukrayinska Pravda.
Petro Poroshenko said this in an interview with the Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper in response to a remark that one politician accused him of greediness.
"Definitely not. This is the image they are trying to create. I am trying to respond to [remarks about] greediness by saying the following. Can you imagine that I spent two billion hryvnias as my own money on the army?" Poroshenko said.
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"Ask the Air Force that I equipped together with my Roshen partners. Ask the 3rd or 8th Special Purpose Regiment, ask about anti-sniper systems. As soon as they received anti-sniper systems, the number of Russian snipers decreased," Poroshenko added.
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