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Among other things, Kiev should expect a portion of the withdrawn from Afghanistan, or deducted weapons.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.