Ukraine Refuses to Send Helicopter Squadron to Iraq
Ukraine Refuses to Send Helicopter Squadron to Iraq
Rosbalt
KIEV, April 23. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry announced today that it has
refused to send a helicopter squadron to Iraq to join Ukraine's
peacekeeping
force, according to Ukrainian Armed Force's Euro-Atlantic Cooperation
Division Director Major-General Leonid Golopatyuk.
He said according to the anti-Iraq peacekeeping coalition's guidelines, the
US and Poland should provide all helicopter support for the operation.
Furthermore, Iraq does not have the necessary conditions for accommodating
a
Ukrainian helicopter squadron.
At the end of last year the Ukrainian Defense Ministry stated its
intentions
to send two military helicopters and two transport airplanes to Iraq.
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