Defending Europe by Arming Ukraine

Saturday, February 10, 2018 - 22:45 (EEST) Section: Royal United Services Institute (UK)

Overturning its policy of supplying Ukraine with strictly non-lethal military aid, the US will soon supply the Ukrainian military with much-anticipated anti-tank guided missiles. However, will this be enough to turn the tide of the war in the Donbas?Download the article (PDF)Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine began on 20 February 2014. Four years later, about 7% of Ukraine remains under occupation, more than 10,000 people are dead, 25,000 maimed and nearly 2 million internally displaced, even as the urban-industrial infrastructure of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts (the Donbas) has been destroyed (see Donbas in Flames). From the start of this …read more

Source: Royal United Services Institute (UK)