Ukraine Battles To Rebuild A Depleted Military -- Wall Street Journal
With Russia Hovering, Country Seeks Donations From Population to Fund Army
KIEV, Ukraine—As the Kremlin began its invasion of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea last month, a days-old government in Kiev turned to its military to stem the tide. There was an immediate problem: No car batteries for the military vehicles.
With coffers empty, Ukraine's fledgling government appealed to the U.S. embassy for help. The embassy said it would take weeks to get assistance, so the government had to search—among its own people—to find a regional oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky, to kick in the funds to buy them locally.
According to a spokesman for the banking and oil products magnate, Mr. Kolomoisky spent "several million dollars" of his own money, but he stresses others are helping too. "There are lots of small businesses, farmers and local people who are pitching in to help the military bases," said the spokesman.
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My Comment: They have a long way to go .... and with no money in the treasury .... not even enough to buy car batteries .... it will be a long time before the Ukraine military will ever amount to anything.
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If they had tried to keep all this stuff it would have just rotted. Smarter would have been to sell off and use the money to go smaller and for quality. The big mistake was to rely on others for security. Of course this is hindsight and I understand they tried some of this, but in an incoherent way.
Their root problem is still social and must be solved politically or all the military might in the world will not help.
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