New York Times: In Rush to Arm Ukraine, Weapons Are Bought but Not Delivered, or Too Broken to Use
Ukraine has paid contractors hundreds of millions of dollars for weapons that have not been delivered, and some of the much-publicized arms donated by its allies have been so decrepit that they were deemed fit only to be cannibalized for spare parts.
Ukrainian government documents show that as of the end of last year, Kyiv had paid arms suppliers more than $800 million since the Russian invasion in February 2022 for contracts that went completely or partly unfulfilled.
Two people involved in Ukraine’s arms purchasing said that some of the missing weapons had eventually been delivered, and that in other cases brokers had refunded the money. But as of early this spring, hundreds of millions of dollars had been paid — including to state-owned companies — for arms never materialized, one of these people said.
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WNU Editor: A month ago WNU posted a few reports from my Ukrainian sources who were saying the same thing about broken Western weapons. This has been a problem since the beginning of the war.
2 comments:
Well when you go around to all the vassal states telling them that you'll buy all their oldest mothballed shit and replace it with stuff from the current century you're gonna get mostly lemons.
A problem here!
this is NOT from the NY Times but a sources that plagiarizes and is right of center
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