The secret of why the Ukrainian army is better than Vladimir Putin’s Russian army
Eight years later, the roles reverse. This is due to several factors: the modern weapons and training provided to Ukraine by its allies, the highly advanced morale of its forces, the competence of its commanders, intelligence and planning support from the US, as well as devastating tactical errors by the Kremlin and … its generals.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered unmarked troops into Ukraine in 2014, first into Crimea and then into the eastern border region of the Donbass, they were better equipped, trained and organized – and they crushed their opponents.
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However, one reason is worth noting: the way the two armies with Soviet roots learned to fight is very different.
The influence on and off the battlefield has been deepening, with the Ukrainian military able to conduct rapid, combined force operations from Kharkiv in the northeast to the Donbass region in a September operation that a few months earlier proved to be beyond the capabilities of its Russian adversaries. .
In the southern Kherson region, Ukraine has added a third major front where Russian troops are forced to retreat after Kharkiv and the capital Kyiv in April. A massive explosion took place on Saturday on the Putin Bridge, built to connect Crimea to the mainland.
US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he was not joking about Putin’s threat to deploy strategic nuclear weapons. “Because his army, you might say, is underperforming.”
Russia’s poor performance has prompted a reaction at home, from Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov to the iconic mercenary commander Yevgeny Prigozin criticizing the failures of military commanders.
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On Saturday, Putin made his first public appointment of a general – Sergei Surovikin – in command of the entire Ukraine operation. Surovikin leads the Russian Air Force and was in charge of the Southern Theater of Invasion.
People close to the Russian Defense Ministry say they recognize the efficiency of Ukraine’s more divided command structure from the early stages of the war. Meanwhile, Russian military bloggers have described the distracting effect of attacks from behind by small, mobile Ukrainian units, as it is difficult to know in real time how big the siege threat is.
After its defeat in 2015, the Ukrainian Regular Army had to be rebuilt almost from scratch. Hollowed out by decades of underfunding, corruption and subsequent deliberate degradation under pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovich, it could only field 6,000 battle-ready soldiers against Russia’s hybrid forces.
A group of defense ministers appointed before being forcibly removed in 2014 were prosecuted; In one case, the charge was “treason in the interests of the Russian Federation”. By the time he was parachuted into the Ministry for Reform in 2015, it was clear to him that Russian plans to “demilitarize” Ukraine had been in the works for years.
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“It was not just about the Donbass,” said Zagorodnyuk, who was interviewed in Kyiv. “From the beginning, it was supposed to control the whole of Ukraine.”
When Putin launched his offensive earlier this year, it was with an army that spent more than eight years on and equipped. If the U.S. If anything is agreed with the Kremlin, it is that the Ukrainian defense forces are thrown out and Kyiv could fall in a few days.
This did not happen partly because Ukraine’s military reform was based on the principle of “mission task command”, according to Zagorodniuk, in which decision-making is delegated to the lowest possible level.
“This is the exact opposite of what happened between the Soviet and Russian armed forces – the military was learning from a very different past: one authoritarian and imperialist, the other rebel and individualistic,” said Zagorodnyuk, who will serve as defense minister. From 2019 to 2020 “That’s why the war is on.”
The army was one of the last Ukrainian institutions to change. Nevertheless, according to Zagorodniuk, the reforms were “transformative”. NATO training, decision-making power and a new U.S. strength of non-commissioned officers.
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The secret of why the Ukrainian army is better than Vladimir Putin’s Russian army
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