Ukraine Receives First Batch of US Humvees

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Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday took delivery of 10 US armored vehicles, two days after American lawmakers voted to urge President Barack Obama to provide "lethal" aid to Kiev.

Dressed in camouflage, the Ukraine leader thanked Washington for the 10 Humvees, the first of 30 promised by Washington, as they arrived at Kiev's Boryspil International Airport.

In total, the US plans to send 200 regular Humvees, radios, counter-mortar radars and other non-lethal equipment worth $75 million.

Yeh, phrase "make peace not war" is not about modern America...and it's very sad.

 

[waltky]

Russia building major military base near Ukrainian border...

Exclusive: Russia building major military base near Ukrainian border
Wed Sep 9, 2015 | Russia has started to build a huge military base housing ammunition depots and barracks for several thousand soldiers near the Ukrainian border, a project that suggests the Kremlin is digging in for a prolonged stand-off with Kiev.

The base, when completed, will even have its own swimming pool, skating rink and barber shop, according to public documents. This week workmen were erecting a fence in a cornfield outside the village of Soloti to mark out the perimeter, and told a Reuters reporter to leave, accusing him of being an Ukrainian spy. In almost the same spot there was a flurry of military activity in April last year that coincided with intense fighting across the Ukrainian frontier that lies about 25 km (15 miles) away. A squadron of Mi-24 attack helicopters was seen there at the time, as well as army tents and trucks.

NATO has accused Russia of using makeshift bases for sending soldiers and hardware into Ukraine to support pro-Russian separatists fighting Kiev. Russia denies its military is in Ukraine. The defense ministry did not reply to written questions from Reuters about the purpose of the base it is building and whether there was any connection to the Ukraine conflict. According to tender documents published on the Russian government website zakupki.gov.ru, the ministry is building the military base on a 300-hectare site near Valuyki, a small town not far from Soloti.

An excavator is seen at a construction site for Russia's new military base near the Russian-Ukrainian border in the village of Soloti, southeast of Belgorod, Russia

The ministry intends to build nine barracks for 3,500 soldiers, warehouses for rockets, artillery weapons, and other munitions with a total area of over 6,000 square meters. The documents also stated there would be a large training complex, and an infirmary for 50 beds, which can be expanded in case of "massive influx of wounded". They did not give the exact location of the base, but local residents in Soloti said they believed it would be on their doorstep. "They are building a military town," said Alexander Panchenko, a local resident whose house overlooks farmland where preparatory work is underway for a big construction project.

"SECRET FACILITY"

 

[waltky]

And who do ya think will fund the majority of the dependence?...

Ukraine faces years of dependence on Western aid
Oct 28,`15 -- Looking on from her vegetable patch at the motorcade of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Ukrainian villager Olha Voloshchenko says she'd seen the lady on the TV news the night before, but "then the lights went off at our place."

The U.S. hopes agriculture in places like this dilapidated village will help rebuild Ukraine's shattered economy as it severs its centuries-old trade relations with Russia and tries to integrate with the West. The economic reality, however, suggests that dream is a long way off. A lack of jobs often drives young people away from the rural areas that are meant to drive the agricultural renaissance. Outages are common as the electricity grid crumbles from a lack of investment and bribery is still rampant. It is clear Ukraine will depend on U.S. and European financial support for years to come. Pritzker's visit coincided with the U.S. announcement that it would give Ukraine another $1 billion in loan guarantees on condition the country makes a series of reforms. That comes on top of a $17.5 billion aid program from the International Monetary Fund.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker presents books to children in a Jewish school in the Ukrainian town of Bila Tserkva, where some of her distant relatives once lived in Ukraine​

The U.S. official was in Ukraine to help the government push through judicial and anti-corruption measures that would, hopefully, attract the investment needed to wean the country off Western aid. In an interview with The Associated Press, Pritzker called the U.S. administration's decision to give the loan guarantee "a vote of confidence." She said the Ukrainian government's progress on reforms over the last six to nine months was "extraordinary." For Pritzker, her visit mixed old-fashioned commercial diplomacy - bringing a group of U.S. business executives along - and the personal. Until the late 19th century, long before the family built the Hyatt brand into a global hotel chain, the Pritzkers lived south of Kiev and took their name from Voloshchenko's village of Velyki Prytsky.

During her stay in Ukraine she would have gotten a taste of the challenges facing Ukraine, whose economy is expected to shrink by about a tenth this year. Though the conflict in the rebel-held east has quietened down in recent months, much of the country's industrial heartland is either in the hands of Russia-backed rebel or has seen its supply chains disrupted. An anti-corruption push has yet to claim any prominent scalps and Sunday's regional elections saw the resurgence of regional oligarchs that often challenge the government in Kiev. Meanwhile, trade with Russia, which has long been the country's biggest commercial partner, is in freefall as political relations soured over the conflict.

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[Vastator]

Why not let Russia annex them; and then Russia can pay to feed, and defend them?

 

[g5000]

Why not let Russia annex them; and then Russia can pay to feed, and defend them?

Holy shit. Some days my head actually hurts when I see retarded shit on this forum.

I guess you are unfamiliar with the concept of national sovereignty.

Hey, why don't we annex Canada?

 

[Vastator]

Why not let Russia annex them; and then Russia can pay to feed, and defend them?

I guess you are unfamiliar with the concept of national sovereignty.

Hey, why don't we annex Canada?

I'm not talking about the U.S. Annexing anything. And you know it.
As for "the concept of national sovereignty"...
That the Ukrainian's fight. Not ours...

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Why not let Russia annex them; and then Russia can pay to feed, and defend them?

Holy shit. Some days my head actually hurts when I see retarded shit on this forum.

I guess you are unfamiliar with the concept of national sovereignty.

Hey, why don't we annex Canada?

It's not our war and we are definitely not in a position to go toe to toe with the Russians.

 

[Vastator]

g5000
...and what's more; who says it's the United States job to keep the "map of the world" static? Focus on our borders...