Ukraine didn’t stop weapon supply to Georgia
Published: 05 November, 2009, 15:21
Edited: 28 November, 2009, 03:53
TAGS: Arms, Military, NATO, UN, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine
The supply of the Georgian army with weapons and military equipment from Ukraine continues uninterrupted, says Lieutenant General Alexander Shlyakhturov, Head of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate.
“According to our data, Georgia continues to receive military assistance from the NATO countries, Israel and Ukraine like it was before the events of August, 2008. The NATO states, especially the new Eastern-European members, are supplying Georgia mostly with firearms and equipment. The US is training Georgian personnel in accordance with NATO tactics. Israel supplies Georgia with unmanned aircraft and Ukraine delivers heavy weaponry, including tanks and air defense systems,” Shlyakhturov told ITAR-TASS news agency.
“In order to cover them, Ukraine's arms supplies to Georgia are carried out outside official state channels, but not without the knowledge and higher patronage of the Ukrainian leadership,” he stressed.
Back in July, the CEO of Ukrainian state-owned Ukrspetsexport company, Sergey Bondarchuk, said Ukraine has delivered weapons to Georgia and will continue doing so until the UN Security Council issues any prohibition decision on those actions.
He confirmed the fact of supplies of air defense systems, helicopters, infantry fighting vehicles and firearms, saying that “Everything was absolutely legal, on the basis of documents agreed to and received from the security services”.
And the Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament’s investigative commission “On issues of clarifying and establishing the facts of supplies to Georgia Ukrainian military equipment in violation of Ukrainian legislation and international law”, Valery Konovalyuk, said that Georgia had received Ukrainian weapons used in the attack on South Ossetia with the knowledge and on behalf of Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yushchenko.
"Modern air defense systems are being withdrawn from deployment and sold for peanuts to the Georgian Army. Since the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia in 2008, Ukraine has been delivering arms and combat vehicles to Georgia,” Valery Konovaluk said.
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If you add together the ukrainians' arms shippments to Georgia, the new anti-russian télévision broadcasting and many other dirty tricks played all over the World to embarrass Russia, it is evident that the US pentagone, the US military-Industrial-Complex and consequently the Obama administration are involved. So, why keeping up that ridiculous diplomatic furbery show which will lead nowhere. It will be more usefull for mankind' future to just tell the simple truth and expose the facts which Russia' leadership knows as well as I do...
Ukraine has a right to sell millitary hardware to any country that pays. If Russia won't sell it subsidised Gas, then it is a free market. Russians are Ukrainian, they fled to Moscow after Kiev was sacked by the Monghol Tartar horde. I agree that Ukraine is trying to become too westernised. The Russian Ukrainian tradition of Kozak spirit is fading. You can not grow up strong people on McDonalds Hamburgers and Diet Coke. Russians and Ukrainians should be friends. We have a common history
OMG, you guys are telling me that Ukraine, is selling weapons to Georgia even though it is a perfectly legal and profitable thing to do. Seriously what the fuck, report real news, as opposed to ruining Ukraine's image in Russia.