Ukraine admits to supplying weapons to Georgia

[Afro-European]

Ukraine's Defense and Foreign ministries have confirmed the statement made by Eduard Kokoity, president of the breakaway republic of South Ossetia, about delivering military equipment to Georgia.
The Ukrainian authorities have not specified the type and amount of weapons they supplied to Georgia. Analysts said the deliveries are aimed at creating problems for Russia in the region.
Ukraine and Georgia signed an agreement on military technical cooperation in 2005, immediately after Viktor Yushchenko was elected president of Ukraine. In the fall of 2005, Kokoity for the first time said publicly that Ukraine was supplying T-72 tanks, Mi-8 helicopters, armored personnel carriers, missiles and other weapons to Georgia.
In 2007, the Ukrainian authorities classified information about its military supplies.
"It was done on the order from President Yushchenko," a former employee of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told the popular daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta. He said the data provided by Ukraine to the UN Register of Conventional Arms were "declarative and voluntary," and therefore likely to be incomplete.
During a visit to Tbilisi in June 2008, Ukrainian Defense Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov said openly that Ukraine was supplying arms to Georgia.
He also said the Georgian and Ukrainian authorities had agreed on joint research into new weapons with a view to joining NATO.
Ukrainian analysts believe that Viktor Yushchenko and his friend, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, deliberately fanned tensions by saying that the issue concerned national security to encourage NATO to admit them to the bloc.
According to analysts, Russia is both countries' hypothetical "external enemy," although they never say so openly. Saakashvili is playing this card now over tensions in South Ossetia.
Last spring, Yushchenko told the West about threats to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity after the media published Putin's statements at the NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, where he called NATO's promise of eventual membership to Georgia and Ukraine "a direct threat" to Russian security.
Mikhail Pogrebinsky, director of the Center for Political and Conflict Studies in Kiev, said Ukraine was supplying weapons to Georgia to create problems for Russia.
"The international practice is to refrain from supplying weapons to regions with a high risk of armed conflicts," he said. "Kiev probably thinks that the more weapons in Georgia, the more problems for Russia and the better for Ukraine."

http://www.en.rian.ru/analysis/20080807/115878681.html

Ukraine and Georgia are ganging up on Russia.This isn't looking good for the Bear.

[Somalimafia]

Well, it is not up to Russia to choose if their neighbours want to arm themselves. Especially during this South Ossetia conflict.

[Mr.Flint]

The horror of it!!!! someone sells weapons to someone who doesnt like Russia, it is so awful!!!!

Karma is a bitch, aint it?

[Afro-European]

Originally Posted by Mr.Flint

The horror of it!!!! someone sells weapons to someone who doesnt like Russia, it is so awful!!!!
Karma is a bitch, aint it?

Yeah Karma is indeed a b!tch.It 'd be the same if Russia 'd sell its advanced weapons to,let me say Iran and Syria.Wouldn't it?

[Abbadon the Despoiler]

^ hehe

yeah...they sell them weapons so what? I wouldnt compare georgia with Iran or NK

"While Russia has denied that it sold the system to Iran, Teheran claimed last year that Moscow was preparing to equip the Islamic Republic with S-300 systems."

KRAZ

[Sergei]

Originally Posted by Afro-European

http://www.en.rian.ru/analysis/20080807/115878681.html

Ukraine and Georgia are ganging up on Russia.This isn't looking good for the Bear.

This isn't looking good for both UShenko and Sukashvili regimes.
The Bear when he wakes up will settle the old scores.

[Excalibur]

Shame on them.
Ukraine and any Slavic nation helping georgian bandits agains their russian brothers are making big big mistake. time will come and they will understand that, they will regret that.

russians have good reason to view such behavior of ukrainians as act of treason.
i know there are some differences and unresolved issues between russia and ukraine, but still i would expect some minimal solidarity between two slavic nations.

[Andromeda]

Well at least this way your enemies unmask themselves. Guess russia now knows who to cause "problem" to in the future..

[Abbadon the Despoiler]

and most of the former states of the Soviet Union has good reason to ,at least, dislike Russians...

[nelson38899]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

Shame on them.
Ukraine and any Slavic nation helping georgian bandits agains their russian brothers are making big big mistake. time will come and they will understand that, they will regret that.

russians have good reason to view such behavior of ukrainians as act of treason.
i know there are some differences and unresolved issues between russia and ukraine, but still i would expect some minimal solidarity between two slavic nations.

why, is treason??

Ukraine is a independent country, they can sell weapons to the country they won't. The Russian do the same

[Afro-European]

Originally Posted by Abbadon the Despoiler

^ hehe

yeah...they sell them weapons so what? I wouldnt compare georgia with Iran or NK

You are right that you can't compare NK and Iran with Georgia as the latter is killing Russia citizens.

"While Russia has denied that it sold the system to Iran, Teheran claimed last year that Moscow was preparing to equip the Islamic Republic with S-300 systems."
KRAZ

Iran doesn't still have any S-300.

[Afro-European]

Originally Posted by nelson38899

why, is treason??

Ukraine is a independent country, they can sell weapons to the country they won't. The Russian do the same

Can we say the same thing about Russia selling weapons to North Korea,Syria and Iran?

[Ironsight06]

Originally Posted by Afro-European

You are right that you can't compare NK and Iran with Georgia as the latter is killing Russia citizens.

Get over it. Georgia has the right to defend itself. There would have been no problem if Russia didn't meddle in South Ossetia.

[seruriermarshal]

Good for Ukraine

[Afro-European]

Originally Posted by Ironsight06

Get over it. Georgia has the right to defend itself. There would have been no problem if Russia didn't meddle in South Ossetia.

90% of South Ossetians and Abkhazians are Russian citizens.
Btw what's Nato doing in Kosovo.Couldn't Serbia(a sovereign country) have handled its internal matter itself?