The tragedy near Kharkov destroyed the myth about the Ukrainian army - Ermolaev
The AN-26 crash near Kharkov, in which cadets of the Kharkov National Air Force University were killed, showed that Ukrainian society had a mythological idea of the Ukrainian army.
The head of the Sofia strategic group, Andrei Ermolaev, stated this on the NEWSONE TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It's time to draw big conclusions. Firstly, the myth that we have been fed for five years is collapsing - “army-mova-vira”, all three meanings. An army is not just something that fights, as it seemed. This is part of the military organization, something that interacts with the defense complex, industry, science. This is a military education, the responsibility of the state for military-technical programs that need to be addressed.
And in this tragedy everything worked out. We have lost young guys who dreamed of being in the air, of being modern pilots. This happened due to the fact that we have Soviet-era junk flying around. And what our manufacturers boast about, the AN-178, who has seen it in service for 5-6 years in “army-mova-vira” conditions?
We need to talk not just about army reform, but about a system in which there are scientific and educational components. And we will be proud of our military not just as defenders of the homeland, but as specialists with an excellent education and the highest training. And the fact that the state and the economy help the army with modern weapons.
I am saddened by the speculation surrounding the tragedy and the lack of desire to take a step forward. I'm afraid that a few days will pass and another tragedy will turn the page on this one.
And what hurt me was that proposals began to appear to reward the guy who survived this tragedy. I think this is moral Jesuitism. He survived, he worries about those people who were on the plane. We need to support him, help him succeed as an officer. And don’t speculate on what could become an internal psychological trauma for him,” Ermolaev said.
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