Outdated military equipment

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer arrived in Kiev with a delegation on Monday to discuss the possibility of NATO membership for Ukraine. Despite protests from Russia, radio commentator Ceslovas Iskauskas sees the country on the right path towards the West: "What is it they say? Things move on. Ukraine became a member of NATO's space control programme on 13 June, and Kiev has long been participating in almost all the alliance's operations, whether in Afghanistan, Kosovo or patrolling activities in the Mediterranean. Ukraine is now preparing to participate in NATO's fast intervention troops, which are deployed to crisis regions. However, most of Ukraine's military equipment is outdated, and this confirms the West's fears that the country's membership will prove hard to swallow for everyone involved."

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