Ukrainian soldiers stand guard in front of an armoured personnel carrier at a checkpoint in the village of Malinivka, east of Slaviansk in eastern Ukraine April 24, 2014. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
Ukrainian Army Fights Rebels And Neglect -- Washington Post
KIEV, Ukraine — The cellphone photo showed a young Ukrainian soldier lying in a hospital bed, seemingly unconscious, with his head heavily bandaged and a feeding tube sticking from his mouth.
He had been fighting separatists in the country’s east. He went into combat without a helmet.
“If he’d had one, he wouldn’t have been hurt so bad,” said Yuri Biryukov, 39, who relies on his employees to run his chain of travel agencies while he raises money to buy the basics of modern warfare, including the goggles and sniper rifles that he delivers in sometimes harrowing trips to the front line. “I need to get 40,000 euros by tomorrow to buy helmets, and I don’t have it.”
Ultimately, he raised more than double the $54,000 he sought when he posted the young man’s photo on his Facebook page the next day.
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My Comment: You cannot put together a modern army through charity .... the government in Kiev will have to allocate the necessary resources and money even though they are limited in resources and money. As to the "growing effectiveness" of the Ukraine army in eastern Ukraine .... I have my doubts. Everyone in eastern Ukraine are telling me the same thing .... the Ukraine army never leaves their bases/FOBs, they are always short of basic goods, and their indiscriminate firings of artillery shells into populated centers is aggravating the tensions exponentially and fermenting even more independence aspirations.
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Read that Poroshenko have a plan B when the ceasefire ends and the pro Russians have not laid down their weapons. Do you know anything about this?
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Are some soldiers from the ATO switching sides to help the pro-Russian separatists?
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The new mayor in Kharkov is he pro-Russian? I have read that there was some pro-Russian rally's in Kharkov and the police stood idle an watched. But when the pro-Ukrainians had their rally they got arrested and beaten up by the police.
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What are your family telling you about the situation in Kharkov, is still stable or is it deteriorating?
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Is it still calm in Odessa or have the pro-Russians began to have an increasing presence there?
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