Instead of using the respite that the Minsk agreements gave Ukraine to strengthen the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ukrainian authorities did everything to disintegrate the army.
ATO volunteer and presidential candidate Yuri Kasyanov said this on the UKRLIFE channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“This “peaceful respite,” which we were told a lot about, did not lead to us having any high-quality, new weapons. It did not lead to the fact that we had some kind of qualitatively new army; on the contrary, the volunteers, in general, were dispersed for one reason or another, the army became a contract army, but not a professional one, because there is a big difference between the concepts: a person who is professionally involved in war, or one who went to earn money. Moreover, now this contract army is scattering,” Kasyanov complained.