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Ukraine’s army is currently the second strongest in the world, just behind the US!

April 10, local time, Foreign Minister Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba, in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” program, said that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has demonstrated the strength of the Ukrainian military “second only to America”.

He took the opportunity to ask the West for arms aid, saying that “it is Ukraine’s fighting that has kept Western countries from having to confront Putin”.

Mr. Kuleba also once again mentioned NATO’s refusal to admit Ukraine, saying that Germany and France’s 2008 refusal of Ukraine to join NATO was a “strategic mistake” of the two countries and Ukraine had to pay for this. there. “If we were a member of NATO, the war would not have happened.”

In an interview conducted online, Kuleba praised the Ukrainian military’s performance in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and called Russia’s withdrawal from northern Kiev a victory for the Ukrainian army.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister: Ukraine's army is now the second strongest in the world, just behind the US!  - Photo 2.

Mr. Kuleba in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press program.

“The fact is that we know how to fight and we are capable of fighting,” Mr. Kuleba said on the show:

“I believe it is not an exaggeration to say that Ukraine has proven itself to have one of the strongest militaries in the world; perhaps the second most powerful army after the United States. This is not about the number of troops. , but by combat experience and combat ability.”

Mr. Kuleba also took the opportunity to ask Western countries for arms aid, bluntly calling it a “fair deal”.

Mr. Kuleba said:

“What we need is to provide us with the most advanced weapons. So we ask the West and NATO to make a fair trade: you give us all that we have. I need aid, we fight; that way you don’t have to stand up to Mr. Putin.”

Mr. Kuleba also said in the interview that Germany and France made a “strategic mistake” by refusing to accept Ukraine’s accession to NATO in 2008.

At the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest (Romania), the United States proposed for Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO, but failed due to objections from Germany and France.

Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used this incident to severely criticize German and French politicians at the time, who were afraid of Russia, in order to appease Russia, which made mistakes and plunged Ukraine into the abyss of war after 14 years. five.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has resigned, responded through her spokeswoman that she still insists that her decision at the 2008 NATO summit was the right one.

In an interview with NBC, Mr. Kuleba repeated the old tune and still did not give up his efforts to join NATO.

“If we were NATO members, this war would not have happened,” he said. “Germany and France made the strategic mistake in 2008 of rejecting efforts by the US and other allies to bring Ukraine into NATO, and now we are paying a heavy price for that. But not Germany and France. The price for this mistake is Ukraine.”

Ukraine's Foreign Minister: Ukraine's army is now the second strongest in the world, just behind the US!  - Photo 4.

Mr. Dmytro Kuleba and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

Kuleba also praised the US, saying that the US “did more than any other country in the world when it came to providing us with the necessary weapons”. He urged weapons to be supplied faster and that the parties involved were spending too much time discussing whether it was ultimately necessary to supply offensive or defensive weapons to Ukraine.

Earlier, at a meeting of foreign ministers of NATO member countries, Mr. Kuleba criticized Germany for inadequate military aid to Ukraine and for making “wrong distinctions” between defensive and offensive weapons. labour.

Mr. Kuleba strongly urged the West to give arms to Ukraine and received the support of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. In an interview with British media outlet Daily Telegraph on April 9, he criticized German aid to Ukraine as “conservative”, saying that military aid to Ukraine should not distinguish “defensive” weapons. and “offensive”, “Ukraine uses all weapons for defense.”

Stoltenberg also said that NATO is planning to permanently station troops on the eastern flank border of this military alliance in response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

He stated that since the Ukraine crisis in 2014, NATO has provided the largest reinforcement since the end of the Cold War, now seeking to turn that “reinforcement” into a “reinforcement”. “reset” is fundamental, changing the role of the Eastern European member states’ militaries from “playing the role of a foothold” in the event of a Russian attack to a “comprehensive threat force”. .

After Russia started the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, the US and NATO countries donated a huge amount of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine.

US Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said at a press conference on April 6 that as of August 2021, US President Joe Biden has approved six rounds of military equipment aid to Ukraine.

Especially since Russia conducted “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, the total amount of US aid to Ukraine has exceeded 1.7 billion USD.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also recently said that NATO is providing anti-aircraft missiles, anti-tank weapons and other aid to Ukraine, and NATO countries will continue to provide Ukraine with weapons and military equipment. The need includes thousands of tanks and armor that were previously made by the Soviet Union.

Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary, also gave a surprising number when she said that the number of anti-tank missiles that the US and the West provided to Ukraine was 90 times more than the number of tanks. of Russia in Ukraine. That is, on average, each Russian tank will face the threat of 90 anti-tank missiles.

In addition, to the Russian armored forces in Ukraine, the US has provided 3 times more anti-armor weapons, if the allies support more militarily, the number of anti-armor weapons will increase. Ukraine’s hand to deal with Russian armored vehicles will be 25/1 (ie, 1 Russian armored vehicle has up to 25 anti-armor weapons to deal with).

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