Former Acting President of Ukraine And Now New Security Chief: Ukraine To Undergo A Massive Military Buildup. War Will End When Ukraine Wins Back Rebel Held Territories And Crimea

Photo: Oleksandr Turchynov. Wikipedia

Ukraine Sets Task Of Building Europe's Strongest Army, Returning Crimea — Security Chief -- ITAR-TASS

KIEV, December 17. /TASS/. Ukrainian authorities have set an ambitious task of building one of the strongest armies in Europe and bring Crimea back from Russia, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Oleksadr Turchynov said on Wednesday.



The country’s Defense Ministry and the Interior Ministry will get a more than 10% share in the total budget spending for 2015 estimated at $31 billion. A total of 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) of cash-strapped Ukraine will go to the army.



“We need to create one of the strongest armies in Europe, and we have no other alternative,” Turchynov said. “Our war will end only when the whole territory of Ukraine is freed, including Crimea,” he said.



Turchynov, a former speaker of the country’s parliament who was appointed as the council’s new chief on Tuesday, said one of the first steps is to increase the army reserve to 100,000 people.





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My Comment: When appointed to the position of acting Ukrainian President after the revolution .... Oleksandr Turchynov's unwillingness to compromise and his strong support of Ukrainian nationalism at the expense of Ukraine's Russian minority is .... to put it bluntly .... what put Ukraine in the mess that it is in today. Now his call for a massive military buildup and a war against Russia over Crimea .... what can I say but he is doubling down on the disaster that he and many of his fellow Ukrainian politicians help create 9 -10 months ago.