Friday, July 8, 2016

Poroshenko : No NATO Ally has Ukraine's battlefield experience with modern Russian army

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in his op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled “Ukraine and NATO, Complementary Allies Against Russia” has called on the Alliance to remember its origins as the Bloc was created to defend the peace and global order that emerged out of the chaos of World War II.

“Appeasement is not a solution,” the Ukrainian president wrote. “Russia has been deliberately inciting instability wherever it can, hoping to divide the West and advance its own geopolitical agenda." The president goes on to say that in the two years since the last NATO summit, Ukraine has witnessed firsthand this agenda unfold. “We have suffered under the guns of Russian aggression in Crimea and Donbas,” he said.

President Poroshenko also boasts a “modern and tenable army, one that has destroyed Vladimir Putin’s dream of cutting Ukraine in half.”

“We have created a brand new Special Operations Force. Fifteen new brigades have been established. Military training and education has been modernized. Military strategic documents, developed in collaboration with NATO experts, have been adopted. To enhance our defense capabilities, our military participates in training exercises such as Anaconda 2016, Sea Breeze and Rapid Trident, alongside NATO forces,” he wrote.

NATO’s collective security could likewise benefit from Ukraine’s experience and intelligence. Russia’s aggression on the Bloc’s eastern flank is an aggression not only against Ukraine, but the Western world. “Yet no NATO member state has actual battlefield experience engaging with the modern Russian army. Ukraine does,” Poroshenko said.
[www.unian.info]
8/7/16

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