Iraqi, Ukrainian Armed Forces Face Same Problems – NGO Head

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The military forces of Ukraine and Iraq experience the same problems, administrator-general of the Eurasian Observatory for Democracy and Elections (EODE) Luc Michel told Sputnik Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to Michel, both the Ukrainian and Iraqi soldiers have “no motivation to risk their lives for the state.”

“In the two cases [of Ukraine and Iraq], the problems of the armies are the problems of the states’ non-existence.”

EODE’s administrator-general added that the military forces of the two states are unable to reach their goals without help from third countries.

On Sunday, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that the Iraqi military's weak morale was one of the major reasons why the Islamic State militants captured the key Iraqi city of Ramadi last week.

Since early 2014, the Ukrainian security forces are trying to suppress the independence movement in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, that refused to recognize the coup-imposed government in Kiev.

According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the conflict in eastern Ukraine has left more than 6,200 people dead and over 15,600 injured.

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