US and Ukrainian soldiers attend an opening ceremony of the joint Ukrainian-US military exercise 'Fearless Guardian' at the Yavoriv training ground in the western region of Lviv on April 20, 2015 (AFP Photo/Yuriy Dyachyshyn)
Samuel Bendett, The Compass: How Ukraine's Military Will Defeat Russia's Rebels
Tensions between Ukraine and Russia show no signs of abating, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was unsparing when he recently criticized Russia for destabilizing his country.
Speaking on March 25 at a government meeting marking the creation of the Ukrainian Security Service, or SBU, Poroshenko said that of the more than 200 terrorist attacks prevented by Ukraine in 2015, most were prepared in Russia. The president said such attacks were meant to to destabilize the political situation in the country and were planned for Kiev, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv, and Lviv -- the nation's major cities and regions.
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WNU Editor: I am sure that with time the Ukraine Army will be a professional fighting force one day .... but not in the short to medium term. As I have said more than once in this blog, the Ukraine conflict begs for a political solution .... not a military one. Waging war against your own citizens only guarantees more bitterness and division. Unfortunately .... it is the military solution that Ukraine President Poroshenko is looking at.