Ukrainian soldiers stand guard near the Kramatorsk airport in eastern Ukraine April 25, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Ukraine Govt Asks Public To Donate Soap, Linen For Special ‘Anti-Separatist’ Units -- RT
The cash-stripped Ukrainian Interior Ministry is asking the public for donations to equip the newly formed special forces. It is offering a place in a public commission, which would control the cash flow, to biggest donors.
The ministry has recruited 8,000 out of a planned 12,000 troops since April 13, when Interior Minister Arsen Avakov decided to form the new units in response to the wave of protests in eastern Ukraine. But it lacks the money to properly equip them, it said in a statement.
“The state budget allocates funds for the functioning of the special units of the Interior Ministry. But in they are not enough in the circumstance of rigid resource saving, state spending sequestering and an economic war unleashed by the Russian Federation,” the statement said.
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My Comment: This report is from RT (Russia Television) .... so I am skeptical. But I have been constantly hearing/reading/and seeing via through video reports that the "Ukraine military units" sent into the eastern part of the country are poorly equipped .... and not as disciplined as the Ukrainian government likes to paint them.
Update: My cousin's son who served in the Ukraine military until last year just told me that the biggest problem is food for these units .... or more to the point ..... the lack of it..