Ukraine is the 14 th largest exporter of arms according to the Stockholm peace research institute Sipri. The export value amounted up to 115 mill US dollar in 2020, 96 Mill US Dollar in 2019. Ukraine received weaponry from the US, Canada, Great Britain, the United Arab Emirates, France, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey, Czech Republic and Nato, Nicole Hinojosa is informing on my request on behalf of Cato Institute. Since 40 years the think tank is publishing on security policy related topics. The website is informing that the Biden administration had announced arms deliveries worth 125 mill US dollars, having supplied 60 mill US dollar of them. In 2017 and 2019 Javelin anti tank missiles were provided, produced by Raytheon. The contracts are listed by the Pentagon. Ukraine carried international joint military exercises called Agile spirit in 2021 together with US forces. The manouvre was joined by Great Britain, Latvia and Lithuania, Italy, Canada, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan. In 2014 the US provided military aid worth 1.6 billion US dollars up to 2.5 billion US dollars according to the Pentagon. 150 mill US dollars were paid in 2021. On an annual basis the US and Ukraine carried out two military exercises in order to deterr Russia. This obviously didn't work out well enough. Didn't the Ukraine forces have the required capabilities, was Russia too forceful or did the imported military goods contain flaws and if so why? Ukrainian journalists inform, Saudi Arabian money enable work at the operative missile system Thunder 2, Ethiopia allegedly financed the anti fighter jet system S 125. Cato institute opposes this. Main source of income allegedly is the export of the anti tank system Corsair and the Scythion system comparable to Stinger. Given this background it remains a mystery why anti aircraft systems of type Strela from out dated arsenal of former Gdr forces NVA should be exported by Germany to Ukraine.
With Ukraine itself having produced dual use goods already way back in the 90's. Peace research institute Sipri is reminding that the European union issued an embargo against Ukraine in order to prevent European arms being used for suppressing opposition in Ukraine. The same worries are constantly to be applied for every country. It remains a question whether cyber capabilities fall under the embargo. Reminding us at the attacks carried out against Iranian nuclear plants by the virus Stuxnet. Why did Ukraine didn't succeed in addressing electronic components directly in Russian tanks and fighter jets before the bombardment occurred. Do we observe a lack of capabilities? Capacities to carry out such attacks allegedly exist, reports were issued accordingly on a regular basis. Or were such reports simply a hoax, billions of US dollars tossed into the trash bin? Ukraine allegedly did not have access to the Pal permissive action links of the nuclear arsenal on its soil, but Russia. What does this tell us about the dismissal? Whose decision was it? Who currently controls the nuclear power plants by remote control?So far neither the Ukrainian defense ministry nor did the US think tank Rand reply to my request, nor the Federation of American scientists, London based Chatham house, Institute for science and international security, the Center for Strategic international studies, Hamburg based Ifsh, nor the Digital society Institute. Scott Ghiringhelli, speaker of US Eucom American forces, declined to be more specific on operations, deployments, military plans or equipment.It conglomerate Symantec could not be reached by phone.
Susanne Haerpfer
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