President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including artillery, must pass to NATO standards in the near future.

"I think that right now we need to move to the principles that dominate among our partner countries and NATO members ... NATO's key feature is accuracy. Today Ukrainian artillery fully meets these requirements. We are confidently moving forward this way," Poroshenko said in the village of Divychky of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky district of Kyiv region on Friday on the occasion of the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery.

He said that this year the Armed Forces of Ukraine received more than 600 units of missile and artillery armament, more than 250 units of night vision devices and other modern weapons.

"For this period, the portable complex Korsar, the unmanned aerial complexes Furia, Fly Eye were adopted or admitted for operation. In the framework of assistance from international partners, we additionally received over 100 night vision devices, protected laptops," Poroshenko said.

The president also noted a large number of problems in the Armed Forces. "This concerns both the problems of the restoration and modernization of weapons, the provision of ammunition, the establishment of training centers for the training of artillery specialists and the process of their training in full accordance with the real needs of the Ukrainian troops and NATO standards," the president said.

In this regard, Poroshenko ordered to increase the intensity and quality of training of Ukrainian artillerymen.

He called on the Defense Ministry of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine to continue increasing the intensity of training of artillerymen-rocket men.