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Over $3 billion is allocated monthly from the state budget to cover costs of defense, according to the finance ministry Ukraine spends 130 billion hryvnia ($3.5 billion) a month on its military, Finance Minister Sergey Marchenko has revealed.

Growing trade between Moscow and the Emirates has been raising concerns among the gulf state’s Western partners The US, UK and EU plan to jointly appeal to the UAE this week to request that the country stop dual-use goods sales to Russia, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday citing Western officials.