After more than a year of fighting in eastern Ukraine, the country's regular army remains disorganized and poorly equipped. "The Defense Ministry needed to test underpants for a year before approving them for use. I'm not kidding," President Petro Poroshenko told a meeting of regional chiefs this month.
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Reuters: Guns and underpants – Ukrainian army hobbled by bureaucratic woes
Servicemen patrol in a trench on the position of Ukrainian forces near Gorlivka, in the Donetsk Oblast, on July 28.
