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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, waves to people in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. Ukraine's president announced plans Sunday to boost his country's defense spending by an estimated 50 percent as government forces seek to overpower pro-Russian separatists in the east. President Petro Poroshenko made his pledge to spend an extra 40 billion hryvnia ($3 billion) by 2017 during a speech marking Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. (AP Photo/Presidential Press Service, Mykhailo Markiv, Pool)
Photo by: Mykola Lazarenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, waves to people in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. Ukraine's president announced plans Sunday to boost his country's defense spending by an estimated 50 percent as government forces seek to overpower pro-Russian separatists in the east. President Petro Poroshenko made his pledge to spend an extra 40 billion hryvnia ($3 billion) by 2017 during a speech marking Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. (AP Photo/Presidential Press Service, Mykhailo Markiv, Pool)

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