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CBS Removes Documentary on Ukraine Military Aid After Pressure from Ukrainian Government

Manhattan, New York. October 22, 2020. A man wearing a mask walks in front of CBS News studios in Times Square.

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CBS News retracted a documentary it briefly released on Sunday after pressure from the Ukrainian government. The original documentary (watch it hereCBS put out examined the flow of military aid to Ukraine and quoted someone familiar with the process who said in April that only 30% of the arms were making it to the frontline.

“All of this stuff goes across the border, and then something happens, kind of like 30% of it reaches its final destination,” said Jonas Ohman, the founder of Blue-Yellow, a Lithuania-based organization that CBS said has been meeting with and supplying frontline units with aid in Ukraine since the start of the war in the Donbas in 2014. “30-40%, that’s my estimation,” Ohman said.

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