An armored
vehicles transfer ceremony have taken place in Chuguyiv near Kharkiv on
December 6, 2014. Modernized and repaired tanks T-64B (Bulat) and armored troop
carriers are among military equipment to be sent soon to the warfare area. Besides
self-propelled howitzers 2S1 “Gvozdika” and helicopters Mi-8 and Mi-2 will be
delivered to the east of Ukraine soon. Ukraine has partly suspended the supplies
of military equipment abroad to meet growing requirements of Ukrainian Army.
The annexation of
Crimea and the hybrid war with Russian Federation have changed the
Ukrainian government’s attitude toward the domestic military industry. Consequently,
Ukraine’s arms production sector is likely to cease being an export-oriented
industry that depended on Russia and exploited the fame of the Soviet
military-industrial complex, while not developing much of its own hardware or
technologies. President Petro Poroshenko told the government last September
that the Ukrainian military-industrial complex could become one of the engines
of the national economy.
We have to thank you all
Ukrainian engineers and workers for their selfless labour. They succeeded in breathing
new life into military factories and specialized repair shops that have been standing
idle for decades. To say truly, these vehicles are out of the date in
comparison with what NATO countries are currently armed with, but undoubtedly it is better than nothing. Unfortunately
the countries that acts as guarantors of our territorial integrity as well as
other western friends of Ukraine more inclined to provide us with whatever you
want but not lethal arms. More and more people here in Ukraine has started to
think about whether the decision regarding a non-nuclear -weapon status was mistaken
or not ...
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