Kiev is not wanted from the acquisition of canadian multi-role fighter, said the former Commissioner of the defense Ministry of Ukraine Leonid Polyakov broadcast Ukrainian evening on the last working day of the week.

The poles held the post of Deputy Minister from March to April 2014.

according to him, back in the spring of Canada was invited to give Ukraine a few fighters, but the Ministry of defence refused because of the expensive operation of the aircraft and the inability to quickly retrain pilots.

Ukraine on the background began in April of confrontation in the Donbass repeatedly asked the West for help, and among them About military equipment. First Deputy assistant to the President for national security Anthony Lloyd made a motion to consider granting Ukraine " lethal weapons " for defensive purposes. In the Russian foreign Ministry told that the supply of U.S. lethal weapons Ukraine will violate the Minsk agreement on the settlement of the conflict.


Kyiv authorities in April began in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the UN on September eleven, the victims of the conflict was almost 3, 2 thousands of civilians, more than 8 thousand were injured. After the meeting of the contact group on the settlement of the fall of the Ukraine, Kiev authorities and militias Donbass came to an agreement On the ceasefire, which came into force on 5 September. Military and militia periodically report violations of the ceasefire, both sides, however, and international observers have concluded that it is in General observed. About the development of the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine read

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