NATO supplies to Ukraine in second-hand weapons

Military Globe - The US and other NATO countries want to Ukraine in the modernization support their armed forces and thereby killing two birds with one stone, writes, "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" on Friday.

At the same time they are thereby released her old military technology.
Among other things, Kiev should expect a portion of the withdrawn from Afghanistan, or deducted weapons. That said yesterday US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.

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It has already been stated that Hungary had the Ukraine supplied with T-72 tanks. In addition, Kiev has bought in the UK a lot of armored personnel Saxon.

According to media reports, the Ukrainian defense industry consolidated Ukroboronprom has signed a contract with the US company Barrett for the purchase of weapons and military equipment, including heavy sniper rifles. In addition, the Ukrainians expect communication technology, anti-tank weapons, radio and gauges may drones. The Speaker of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Viktoria Kushnir, said that the armed forces have already received equipment, rations, medical equipment, linen etc.

But if all this increases the effectiveness of the Ukrainian army remains questionable. For, according to media reports, the major problem in the bad moral condition of the soldiers and the whole Ukrainian population. It is constantly reported new cases of prosecution of conscientious objectors and deserters. "It sometimes happens that within a single night the entire male population of a town disappears. The men who do not want to go to war, flee abroad or simply travel from one village to another, "reported one newspaper in the city of Ternopil.

Against this background, high-ranking officials talk about a new mobilization. Recently, Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak supported it. He also agreed with the Secretary of the Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov to. In his words, to 100,000 reservists are activated. Thus, the Ukrainian army would (including reservists) count 330 000 man and would be the second largest in Europe after Russia. The military expenditures of Kiev were doing five percent of GDP, the largest not only in the CIS, but throughout Eurasia.

More than 170 women and children abducted in Nigeria : Boko Haram terror

Military Globe - Fighters of the Islamist Boko Haram militia coat Nigeria further violence. They have more than 170 women and children abducted in northeastern Nigeria. In a similar attack in the region of the militia terror sect had kidnapped more than 200 girls in April.

Re kidnapping of Nigerian terror sect Boko Haram: In the attack on the secluded village Gumsuri 170 women and children were kidnapped - also 35 people were killed, reported more survivors.

The attack occurred on Sunday. The area is hardly accessible by mobile communication technology. Therefore, it often takes days to get messages out.

Killed 116 fighters of the Boko Haram

In a similar attack in the region of the Boko Haram militia had kidnapped in April, more than 200 girls from a school in the neighboring village Chibok on the border with Cameroon. Through armed struggle of the militia for an Islamist state, thousands of people are in the last five years have been killed and kidnapped hundreds.

116 fighters of Boko Haram were killed, according to the Cameroonian Ministry of Defense on Wednesday during fighting in the far north of the country. The army had repulsed an attack on an army base, a spokesman of the Ministry of Defence.

Abducted 100 people in northern Nigeria

Fighter of the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram have, according to a media report more than 100 people in northern Nigeria abducted on Wednesday and more than 30 others killed. Militiamen had the remote village Gumsuri According to eyewitnesses, attacked the troubled northern Borno State already on last Friday. But the case was only belatedly become known, the newspaper "Premium Times" reported on Thursday.

Officially, the number of those abducted and killed was not immediately confirmed. Gumsuri is located just 20 kilometers away from Chibok where Boko Haram had kidnapped more than 200 students in April. Again, the majority of displaced women and children should be.

A military court in Nigeria sentenced under the 54 soldiers for cowardice and mutiny to death. They had refused in August to participate in an operation against the Islamists to win back a place, such as the "Nigerian Tribune" reported.

Attacks against "Islamic State" : Mission conquest

Military Globe - It is the largest offensive yet against the jihadists. In the battle for the Sinjar Mountains 8,000 Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga are in use, as many as never before. They are supported from the air by the international coalition. More than 60 countries have committed themselves to it, including the US, Canada, Australia, the major European countries and the Arab Gulf states. Germany supports the coalition with arms sales and military trainers.

About 50 attacks flew the coalition since Monday on positions of the "Islamic State" (IS) in the mountains. Together we succeeded in the IS-ring to break through the mountain range. 700 square kilometers of land to have been recaptured, several high-ranking representatives of the terrorist militia were killed in the concentrated action.

Strategically this development for the Alliance a decisive advantage: the area gain the Kurds can now attack the only highway that connects the IS-hinterland in Syria with the controlled by the jihadists city of Mosul.

At the same time the raid in the Sinjar Mountains is a symbolic success: For weeks, the IS-fighters had there surrounded Yezidi thousands of Iraqis in October. With the fear of an impending massacre of the Yazidi US President Barack Obama finally also justified the intervention of the international coalition against IS. Now large parts of the contested territory seem recaptured.

In Iraq, the joint fight on the ground and from the air against the jihadists so now works quite well. The Iraqi Kurds have regained much of their previously lost territories. The Iraqi army has made progress, especially in the provinces of Diyala and Saladin north of Baghdad zurückerkämpft areas. However, the success also cost substantial sacrifices: Over 700 fighters of the Iraqi Kurds have been killed since June. The Caliphate, as the Islamists call their conquered territories, but shrinks.

In spring, the Battle of Mosul to start

Next year, the mission is to continue: For spring, the Peshmerga and the Iraqi army jointly plan a major offensive, supported by the international coalition.

One of the main goals: The city of Mosul in the north of the country to be reconquered by the end of 2015 from the jihadists. Currently, international military advisers are preparing the Iraqi army for the difficult street fighting. In Iraq, an international division of labor against the IS has arisen - and celebrating successes.

In Syria, the still looks different. Also there is the international coalition air strikes. Ground operations not take place, however convenient for the missing partner.

Although an estimated two million Kurds live in the war-torn country. However, they are more widely dispersed than in the neighboring state, divided into enclaves and cities across the country. A controlled, focused action, as in Iraq is difficult. There, an estimated four million Kurds live in a contiguous area, Iraqi Kurdistan, which has far-reaching autonomy rights.

Really resistance, there are therefore only selectively in Syria. For months, it is possible the Syrian Kurds, the provincial city Kobane (Arabic: Ain al-Arab) in defense along with Syrian rebels and an Iraqi delegation. But much more they can not afford.

Syrians who rebel against the IS are on their own. The international coalition is reluctant to support. Finally, the Syrian Kurds militias are an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is classified by the EU and the US as a terrorist organization. Many Syrian rebels are in contact with groups that are committed to al-Qaeda.

Also on the Syrian army can not set the international coalition. A collaboration with their commander Bashar al-Assad seems impossible. In addition, Damascus has long supported the jihadists. Assad and his fighters are coming under increasing pressure. Recently they were beaten in the northeast of IS-fighters.

In all the jubilation about the successes in Iraq: In Syria, the advance of the jihadists is far from stopped.

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