The draft also stipulates that the minister of defence must come from the armed forces.

He was given the minister of defence title in the rebel-held eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.

The Iraqi minister of defence Khaled al-Obeidi said earlier that nine soldiers died in the strike on Friday.

They are in turn accountable to the minister of defence and military veterans of the Department of Defence.

In 1999, Marshal Igor Sergeev, then minister of defence, admitted that Russia could not compete militarily with the west.