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Moves are underway in the Ukraine to become less-Moscow and more NATO as the country is shedding its old school Warsaw Pact garb and ranks and trying very hard to look more Berlin and Brussels than Minsk and Pskov. They are replacing thier rank system, inherited from the Soviet Red Army (and the Tsarist Imperial Army before them), with standard NATO ranks and a new series of uniforms looks very Western European indeed.