Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko has warned that Russian-backed rebels in his country’s east boast more artillery, tanks and armored vehicles than Germany’s armed forces, Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform reported Sunday.
Although there are no official figures for the arsenal held by militants in east Ukraine, Poroshenko cited estimates from Ukrainian intelligence, whose agents have said that separatists have more tanks than either Germany or the U.K.
“I want to emphasize that the extent of reinforcement and heavy equipment which Russia continues to deploy throughout the area of the Ukrainian-Russian border—out of the government’s control—has reached such a level that the …read more
Source: Newsweek
