{"id":258066,"date":"2022-09-01T06:35:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=258066"},"modified":"2022-09-03T06:34:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:34:55","slug":"cbs-deletes-documentary-revealing-that-just-30-of-wests-aid-to-ukraine-reached-frontlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=258066","title":{"rendered":"CBS Deletes Documentary Revealing That Just \u201830%\u2019 of West\u2019s \u2018Aid\u2019 to Ukraine Reached Frontlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ukrainian service personnel unpack US supplied Javelin anti-tank missiles.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ilya Tsukanov \u2013 Sputnik News.com Aug 8, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The United States and its European allies have committed tens of billions of dollars in military and economic support for Kiev over the past five months. Moscow has warned repeatedly of the dangers of weapons falling into the hands of black marketeers and making their way onto the international arms black market.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News has curiously deleted a bombshell documentary which uncovered that just \u201c30%\u201d of the military assistance sent to Ukraine by Western countries during the first months of the conflict with Russia actually reached the front lines.<\/p>\n<p>Upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/arming-ukraine-cbs-reports\/\">clicking<\/a> on the link to the documentary, called \u201cArming Ukraine,\u201d users are greeted with a \u201cThe page cannot be found\u201d error.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News announced Monday that it had \u201cremoved a tweet promoting\u201d the doc, assuring that since it was filmed, control over deliveries had improved. \u201cAdditionally, the US military has confirmed that defense attache Brigadier General Garrick M. Harmon arrived in Kiev in August for arms control and monitoring. We are updating our documentary to reflect this new information and air at a later date,\u201d the network explained.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We removed a tweet promoting our recent doc, &quot;Arming Ukraine,&quot; which quoted the founder of the nonprofit Blue-Yellow, Jonas Ohman&#39;s assessment in late April that only around 30% of aid was reaching the front lines in Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EgA96BrD9O\">pic.twitter.com\/EgA96BrD9O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1556444605012385793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the documentary, Jonas Ohman, CEO of Blue-Yellow, a Lithuania-based group involved in the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine, told CBS News correspondent Adam Yamaguchi that just one third of the tens of billions of dollars&#8217; worth of support sent to Ukraine by the US and its NATO allies was reaching the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cYou know all this stuff goes to the border, and then kind of like something happens and kind of like, 30 percent maybe reaches its final destinations,\u201d Ohman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/cbs-documentary-looks-at-effort-to-support-ukrainian-fighters\/#x\">told<\/a> CBS News in a preview of the documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Ohman offered hints about what happens to the rest of the equipment, saying that \u201cthere are like power lords, oligarchs, political players\u201d operating in the country. \u201cThe system itself, it\u2019s like, \u2018we are the armed forces of Ukraine. If security forces want it, well, the Americans gave it to us.\u2019 It\u2019s kind of like power games all day long, so eventually people need the stuff, and they go to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The CEO also offered a novel explanation for why the West needs to ensure that Ukraine \u201cwins\u201d in the conflict with Russia. \u201cIf we lose the war, if we have this kind of gray zone, semi-failed state scenario or something like that. If you do this \u2013 you funnel lots of lethal resources into a place and you lose \u2013 then you will have to face the consequences,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Blue-Yellow has been funneling everything from body armor to night vision equipment and light drones into Ukraine since 2014, when the country was thrust into a civil war sparked by a US- and EU-backed coup in Kiev. The coup led to civil unrest in eastern Ukraine after the new authorities announced a crackdown on the Russian language and began pulling the country into EU and NATO orbit, ultimately culminating in the February 22, 2022 Russian recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People\u2019s Republics as independent states and the launching of a special operation to \u201cdemilitarize\u201d Ukraine two days later.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has committed over $23 billion in military assistance to Ukraine since February, on top of billions delivered to the country between 2014 and 2021. The UK, Germany, Poland, and other NATO members have committed over $7 billion more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Andy Milburn, a retired US Marine colonel and founder of the Mozart Group, a US private military company engaged in the training of Ukrainian troops, suggested the problem with supplies not reaching the front was organizational, and that the West should be more involved in putting \u201cpeople in place\u201d on the ground to \u201csupervise the country\u201d to prevent pilfering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cIf you provide supplies, or a logistics pipeline, there has got to be some organization to it, right? If the ability to which you\u2019re willing to be involved in that stops at the Ukrainian border, the surprise isn\u2019t that, oh, all this stuff isn\u2019t getting to where it needs to go \u2013 the surprise is that people actually expected it to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Sputnik Arabic got an inside look into the nitty-gritty details of the arms smuggling operations taking place in Ukraine, contacting a Ukrainian weapons merchant on the dark web who expressed readiness to sell US-made M4S assault rifles, ammunition, and frag grenades hidden in barrels of motor oil to a Sputnik correspondent posing as a Yemeni arms buyer. The weapons dealer referred to middlemen \u201callies\u201d in Poland and Portugal ready to assist in the shipment<\/p>\n<p>Russia has spent months warning the US and its allies about the dangers posed by the shipment of weapons to Ukraine and the threat that they could wind up on the international arms black market thanks to the corruption and instability which have wracked the country.<\/p>\n<p>Washington and Brussels have ignored these warnings, with Kiev <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20220804\/germany-claims-ukraine-promised-not-to-transfer-aid-weapons-to-third-parties-1098124678.html\">assuring them<\/a> that the arms would not be transferred to third parties or countries. Last month, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) announced that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20220722\/europol-says-working-closely-with-kiev-to-prevent-arms-trafficking-into-eu-1097710435.html\">\u201cworking closely\u201d<\/a> with Kiev to prevent weapons smuggling after discovering that there was evidence of firearms and military equipment from Ukraine appearing in EU countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20220808\/cbs-deletes-documentary-revealing-that-just-30-of-wests-aid-to-ukraine-reached-frontlines-1099383460.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt CBS was acting on instructions when it deleted the documentary. As Washington doesn\u2019t want to publicise the fact that much of billions in military aid donated to Ukraine has been siphoned off to the international weapons black market   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,25,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-The_Media","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258070,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258066\/revisions\/258070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}