Ukraine : le ministère de l'Intérieur demande l'aide financière de la population / Ukraine govt asks public to donate soap, linen for special ‘anti-separatist’ units

Le ministère de l'Intérieur d'Ukraine demande à la population d'accorder une aide financière et matérielle aux unités militaires spéciales combattant les milices populaires. Un fonds approprié a été créé.

Le ministère indique que les moyens budgétaires ne suffisent pas pour assurer l'activité de ces unités.


« Le ministère de l'Intérieur appelle le peuple d'Ukraine à aider à approvisionner et à équiper les militaires qui ont besoin de gilets pare-balles, des moyens de communication et de transport modernes, ainsi que des produits d'hygiène individuelle, des vêtements, du linge et des détergents, entre autres », indique le ministère.
 http://french.ruvr.ru/news/2014_04_26/Ukraine-le-ministere-de-lInterieur-demande-laide-financiere-de-la-population-2698/
26/5/14
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Ukraine govt asks public to donate soap, linen for special ‘anti-separatist’ units

The cash-stripped Ukrainian Interior Ministry is asking the public for donations to equip the newly formed special forces. It is offering a place in a public commission, which would control the cash flow, to biggest donors.

The ministry has recruited 8,000 out of a planned 12,000 troops since April 13, when Interior Minister Arsen Avakov decided to form the new units in response to the wave of protests in eastern Ukraine. But it lacks the money to properly equip them, it said in a statement.
“The state budget allocates funds for the functioning of the special units of the Interior Ministry. But in they are not enough in the circumstance of rigid resource saving, state spending sequestering and an economic war unleashed by the Russian Federation,” the statement said.
The list of what the troops need includes bulletproof vests, Kevlar helmets, communication equipment, transport and even underwear, linen and soap.

• The ministry says it accepts both money donations and actual body armor and hygiene products. It pledges a transparent mechanism for spending the donations with monthly reports and offers seats at a public commission, which would control the cash flow, to sponsors who donate more than 100,000 hryvnas (nearly $9,000).

Money problems are hampering the effort to form new Interior Ministry units in some regions. The Odessa region unit managed to recruit only 18 volunteers out of the 500 planned, the region’s police chief, Petr Lutsuk, reported Thursday. He said the ministry budget offered about $45 a month per force member, while the job description includes working at least 12 hours a day, neither of which helped with attracting people.
It is the second Ukrainian ministry which has decided to seek crowdfunding to fill its coffers. Last week the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported that it had collected more than $7 million in donations to rearm the national army.
Kiev decided to pour some $700 million of budget money into its military, which is suffering from poor morale and shortage of even basic equipment, while slashing social spending and raising utilities prices...................http://rt.com/news/155036-ukraine-interior-ministry-donations/
26/4/14