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Ukraine, Short On Military Budget, Starts Fundraising Drive -- Washington Post
KIEV, UKRAINE — Ukraine’s new government inherited an army so bereft of modern equipment and training that when Russian troops entered Crimea and agitators stormed government offices in eastern Ukraine, the country proved helpless to protect its borders and citizens.
The corruption that had darkened all the nation’s institutions had provoked demonstrators to stand their ground in Kiev until the old leaders fled. But the depth of the damage took the country by surprise when the Crimean Peninsula was easily lost to Russian annexation last month, revealing a military profoundly weakened by theft and neglect.
“Our army has been systematically destroyed and disarmed,” Deputy Defense Minister Petro Mehed said at a briefing this past week, “and its best personnel dismissed.”
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My Comment: This is not how you fund a military. Here is an easy prediction .... a year or two from now (when the situation has stabilized) .... the Ukraine government is going to have a commission that will investigate why it's military was put into the shape that it now finds itself in. Their findings are not going to be pretty.
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