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(Only if you take the lunatics at WSWS.org seriously.)
The United States has delivered more than $260 million in non-lethal
military equipment to help the government of Ukraine in its fight
against a Russian-backed insurgency, but some of the U.S.-supplied gear
meant to protect and transport Ukrainian military forces is little more
than junk.
On the outskirts of the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, for
example, one Ukrainian special forces unit is using U.S.-supplied
Humvees dating from the late 1980s and early 1990s, based on serial
numbers on the vehicles.
Three of the Humvees had plastic doors and windows — barely any
protection at all. The tires on one of the trucks blew apart after
driving only a few hundred kilometers, the result of sitting in a
warehouse too long, said one mechanic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/11/30/on-ukraines-frontlines-u-s-supplied-equipment-is-falling-apart/
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