Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
Samuel Bendett, The Compass: Is Ukraine's Military Ready for a Fight?
Two years ago, the Ukrainian military found itself badly outmatched and unprepared to fight Russian special forces who quickly took over the Crimean peninsula. They also struggled against Moscow-backed separatists in the Donetsk region of Eastern Ukraine in 2015. While Kyiv is finally getting much-needed training and limited support to its various military and security branches from NATO, its forces are far from reaching the desired degree of readiness to take on its security challenges. Among Ukraine's problems is a lack of modern equipment and professional service capable of dealing with advanced Russian weapons and tactics. Trying to reverse these developments, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov recently stated, during a televised address on Ukraine's 1+1 network, that his country needs to modernize its military in order to return Crimea to Ukraine.
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WNU Editor: This is the problem with the Ukraine government .... looking for a military solution to a problem that can only be solved politically. As to the promise to retake Crimea .... it is not going to happen.
2 comments:
Morons.
Russia has a long way to go before being able to stand toe to toe with the US military, let alone NATO.
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