NATO is adding fuel to the fire of the Ukrainian civil war, making Kyiv pay for it
Kyiv has never been able to get the West to begin supplying modern weapons free of charge, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.
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“The Warsaw summit, within which the Ukraine-NATO commission met at the highest level, did not live up to the bold expectations that Kyiv had for the entire month preceding the meeting,” the publication notes. – Free supplies of ultra-modern Western weapons, special partnership conditions and direct Western intervention in the conflict in Donbass, to which the Ukrainian side is pushing the alliance, and today remain only in the rich imagination of Petro Proshenko. As compensation, he received a thirteen-point declaration full of encouraging words, the opportunity to be photographed with Barack Obama, and an offer to buy the remains of the Polish Army arsenals from Warsaw.”
The publication reports that Ukraine and Poland have signed an agreement on mutual arms supplies, under which Kyiv can theoretically receive the Javelins it has long been asking for from Washington at a price of $250 apiece.
“But, taking into account the parallel process announced by NATO to finally rid the member countries of Soviet weapons, Ukraine will most likely gain access to the arsenals of the Polish army, where there are still T-72 tanks (about 500 pieces), Grad installations (75 pieces), BMP-1 (about 1200 pieces) and other types of equipment familiar to Ukrainian military personnel, RG believes. – However, the agreement does not say anything about gratuitous transfers, and this, in principle, is not in the traditions of NATO and Polish-Ukrainian relations in particular. Here we can recall how, at the peak of the energy crisis in 2014, Warsaw refused to lend its coal to Kyiv. And therefore, for the replenishment of the technical fleet and ammunition, the depletion of which was recently announced by Security Council Secretary Turchynov and Parliamentary Speaker Parubiy, Ukraine will have to pay Poland, which may spend the funds received on Javelins. In other words, the West did not betray itself - it added fuel to the fire of the civil war in Ukraine, forcing it to pay for it.”
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