Chapter 989 (2/2)

If it was in the Soviet era, or in other countries with stable political situation, the authorities would do so, and Simon might still have a grudge. Now Ukraine has more than 200000 troops. Frankly speaking, they are a group of local people who may not be as good as the Iraqi troops in the Gulf War.

As for the reason.

As a soldier, you have to eat food. In Ukraine, in 1995, the defense budget squeezed out by the Kiev authorities was only US $910 million, less than US $1 billion. Coupled with the well-known state of skirting in Ukraine at the present stage, it fell to about 240000 troops last year, and may not even have half of it.

It may be a problem for soldiers to have enough to eat, let alone fight.

Today's Ukrainian army is struggling from top to bottom to make a living on its own. After all, a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, western society and Eastern European countries are in a honeymoon period. At least in Ukraine, there is no sign of war or confrontation. Naturally, no one will think of or care about their own army.

Simon is hosting a senior member of the Ukrainian army, who has been designated as the commander of the Western combat command. His name is Vasili Borisov. He is 56 years old and holds the rank of lieutenant general.

In fact, it was the general who mobilized engineers from a regiment to help build infrastructure in the military theme park. Borisov's family is also one of the secret shareholders in the military theme park. In addition, Vasily Borisov's 17-year-old son, Alexander Borisov, was one of the top-level Ukrainian children's study abroad funding programs determined some time ago.

The Borisov family is also involved in the arms trade with Angola. Alexek Borisov, Borisov's eldest son, also works in related arms trading companies.

All in all, this is a ”self”.

Of course, on the surface, Vasili Borisov belongs to Kuchma's department in Kiev, but he is not the core. In the end, he was able to win the post of commander of the Western combat command among several competitors. This is also due to the fact that the westero system is quietly operating.

Compared with the northern operations command in Kyiv and the southern operations command with a navy, the Western operations command is the smallest. Even if we do not consider the further downsizing, there are only less than 60000 people at this stage.

Simon quietly had an idea that 5000 ufms private troops would fight 60000 soldiers from the Western combat command. He didn't know what the result would be?

Of course, the probability of this happening is almost zero.

Even if the one in case really happened, Simon was watching from a distance. Of course, he would feel sorry for the loss of ufms private army, but it didn't hurt his muscles and bones.

Vasili Borisov is more like a bureaucrat than a soldier. It's not hard to imagine that he looks like a man with a big stomach. In front of Simon, the lieutenant general has no air of becoming a commander of the military region. On the contrary, he has obvious humility. Such is the leader, not to mention other senior leaders of the Ukrainian army who participated in the banquet.

Therefore, a dinner party, the guests and the host enjoy.

At 10 p.m., after the dinner, Simon did not stay in the city, but continued to rush back to the hot spring manor in the north of the city.

When the car entered the main road, a girl sitting next to Simon said something serious: ”boss, another invitation has been sent from Moscow. I hope you can attend a banquet tomorrow evening, mainly for an investment delegation from the United States. Yeltsin will also attend.”Simon leaned on the leather seat and closed his eyes. Hearing the speech, he shook his head directly: ”no, I won't go.”

After a long time with Simon, girl a knows more than others. After thinking about it, she said, ”boss, I think sometimes I still need to show my sense of existence.”

Simon opened his eyes, looked at the female assistant beside him, laughed and said, ”a, then why did Yeltsin invite me again?”

Alison said: ”it should be to show some sincerity, or some communication. In short, it must be related to the boss's layout in Russia.”

Simon shook his head. ”You may have guessed wrong this time.”

”Well?”

Simon didn't explain.

Simon didn't tell anyone about someone's arrangement except two jennies. Even girl a only knew that Simon had some special layout in Russia. In any case, he would not think that Simon's layout would be the next president of Russia.

It's too big. Simon doesn't trust girl a, but doesn't want to leave such an insignificant flaw.

Let's talk about Yeltsin's invitation.

If Simon and Tatyana, Yeltsin's youngest daughter, really wanted to talk to him after their last meeting, this time, it is very likely to be a trial to test some of Simon's original promises.

Simon and Tatyana said that someone is not his puppet, and can not be his puppet. However, people with a little brain will not easily believe these words. In this trial, Yeltsin may just want to see if Simon will show an attitude of interference in Russia.

If he goes, it may give Yeltsin a hint that Simon is very interested in Russia and even does not pay general attention to a certain arrangement.

Given the importance, Yeltsin will inevitably think more.

Or, even if Simon really guesses wrong, Yeltsin still wants to have a private talk with him. Simon's refusal again will still have some results he hopes to get.

Seeing that her boss didn't explain, girl a didn't mean to ask. Instead, she talked about other things that Simon needed to know.

Back to the hot spring manor, it's still around 11 p.m.

Today, instead of going directly to the spa, I came to the living room next to the hall.

Several girls are watching TV here.

Simon is not the kind of person who likes to be too busy. He just hugs Eve banhikova, a little girl on the sofa, puts her in his arms, leaves her sister gelina, and lets the other girls leave.

Girl a goes straight up the stairs. After Natalia banjikova's obvious intention to avoid last night, Eve goes to arrange the girls to rest. In the living room, except for the banjikova sisters, only Marta becknatz is still as eager as last night.

After receiving the coffee from the other party, Simon motioned to the girl to sit down beside him. He put his arms around a doll and asked Marta, ”how's your day?”

Simon's words were casual, but Marta didn't dare to be casual. He didn't know what the big boss was referring to. He just said cautiously: ”not bad.”