Why military aid to Ukraine doesn’t always get to the front lines: “Like 30% of it reaches its final destination”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-military-aid-weapons-front-lines/
BY ADAM YAMAGUCHI, ALEX PENA
AUGUST 4, 2022 / 7:04 AM / CBS NEWS
“Why military aid to Ukraine doesn’t always get to the front lines”
EXCERPT:
Andy Millburn is a retired U.S. Marine colonel who served in Iraq and Somalia and recently founded the Mozart Group, a company dedicated to training frontline Ukrainian soldiers. He traveled to Ukraine after the Russian invasion and set up a base in the capital Kyiv.
“If you provide supplies, or a logistics pipeline, there has got to be some organization to it, right? If the ability to which you’re willing to be involved in that stops at the Ukrainian border, the surprise isn’t that, oh, all this stuff isn’t getting to where it needs to go — the surprise is that people actually expected it to,” said Millburn.
“If United States’ policy is to support Ukraine in the defense of its country against the Russian Federation, you can’t go halfway with that. You can’t create artificial lines. I understand that means that U.S. troops are not fighting Russians. I understand even U.S. troops are not crossing the border. But why not at least put people in place to supervise the country? They can be civilians to ensure that the right things are happening,” he said.
Ukraine has created a temporary special commission to track the flow of weapons inside the country.”