Ukraine's
experience of hybrid warfare in Donbas will help Western partners counter
expansion of aggression to Europe and the world as a whole, Ukraine's Security
Service (SBU) head Vasyl Hrytsak has said.
"We have experience which no one else seems to
possess – the experience of #hybrid_warfare. We know that this experience will
help all of us do a lot of good, so that this disease, this aggression doesn't
spread either in Europe or in the world at large," he said in Kyiv on
Thursday, speaking at the 2016 Ukrainian defense and security forum held under
the aegis of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and Ukroboronprom state concern and
attended by NATO representatives.
"Over two years, Ukraine, which has met the
challenge, has been fighting in the war undeclared against us, war against the
Russian aggressor … We have entered the war hardly prepared, however our army,
our society, our security services are not what they used to be two years ago.
We have taken control of ourselves, we are no longer scared, we started to
modernize our old equipment, our structures, and we have started to strike the
enemy," the SBU head said.
"It is important to us now that we have chosen
our path, Euro-Atlantic integration, and I am confident that we are committed
to this path and no one can force us leave it, take a different turn, no matter
how they try," Hrytsak said.
Hrytsak thanked Ukraine's Western partners, in
particular, the United States and NATO, "which help us understand, rethink
problems related to defense capacity, the security sector."
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