Whatever the "Coalition of the Willing" is being called these days, it's getting lighter:
On March 1 President Viktor Yushchenko announced that Ukraine would withdraw its coalition 1 650 troops in Iraq in three stages between mid-March and mid-October.
Ukraine has the sixth-largest contingent in the US-led coalition in Iraq after the United States, Britain, South Korea, Italy and Poland.
Yushchenko won a rerun presidential election in late December after mass protests and a Supreme Court decision annulling the previous round, which opponents called fraudulent.
Oh, and the reason why the first round of elections was considered fraudulent? Discrepencies between exit polling data and the actual result...over there, the exit polls were considered a more reliable indicator....hmmm.
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