Whatever is going on in Ukraine, it is not good to cut off the electricity to major military bases. It is not good to cut off the electricity to minor military institutions and deposits either, but that is less worrying than strategic-base cut offs. The sums owed seem trifling, all well under 5000 US dollars, so the assumption must be that the administration of a large country on the borders of the European Union and Russia is descending into a chaos from which even its defence systems are not spared.
There is a lot of war material lying about in Ukraine, despite the excellent job done by Russia after the Soviet Union break up. Should there be some consideration of the management of Ukraine's state fragility as there is of Pakistan's?
Update
'President Yushchenko has just received reports from the Prosecutor General and the Defence Minister on the situation of electricity supplies to military facilities, according to the President`s press-office.'
The officials informed the President that at 17.30 the supply of electricity to all strategic units of the Ukrainian military has been restored.
Earlier the Defence Minister had explained 'The bills have not been paid because we don't have any money.' The weapons these people are running around with really need to be under better control than this.
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Scarey stuff !
I visited Ukraine when it was still 'socialist'; they really are jolly nice people.
Considering the enormous undertaking of recovering a country from state authoritarianism, Banned, we might expect some restraint in playing cold war politics all over the east by sections of our and the US power elites. They just can't behave can they? And of course it's the 'jolly nice people' who get put in the front line when the trouble being fomented by those power elites in the interests of their world view breaks out, or despite the efforts, the country breaks down.
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