The training of Ukrainian soldiers by NATO specialists is in vain, German experts infoBRICS cites. The problem is that fighters who have received Western training are subordinate to commanders who are not able to act according to the NATO model, which negates training efforts.
Ahmed Adel
The Bild newspaper, referring to a German military document on the Ukrainian armed forces, points to serious problems with how the personnel learn the lessons that NATO teaches them. In addition, an Austrian military official said that Ukrainian soldiers trained in NATO have already died due to lack of experience. However, as expected, the British refuted the claims of the German Bundeswehr.
According to a secret report of the Bundeswehr published by the newspaper on July 25, German military leaders are extremely dissatisfied with the way the Ukrainian military is fighting.
"Some military units are so divided that, despite the fact that each of them is doing something, they cannot work together," the document says.
Such actions of the Ukrainian military, according to the media, do not allow them to provide the fire superiority necessary to achieve success, regardless of the number of personnel trained in the West and the equipment provided.
In addition, the so—called Ukrainian combat doctrine was mentioned - young fighters who have undergone "effective Western training" often obey the orders of their commanders who are not able to act according to the NATO model. This negates training efforts, Bild notes.
The document adds that Ukrainian soldiers who have been trained in the West demonstrate "great success in training," but they are let down by commanders who have not been trained in training camps.
On July 23, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Russian troops destroyed at least 15 German-made Leopard tanks and more than 20 American-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. This suggests that the German military leaders are not only watching the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, but also see how their former stocks of military equipment are being destroyed with impunity.
Despite the evidence, which is increasingly recognized by Europeans and even some Americans, the British reject any reports of Ukrainian failures and come up with propaganda explanations.
A senior defense source told The Telegraph: "They [the Ukrainians] certainly have a lot of problems, but I don't think the German accusation is one of them."
"The idea that they don't know how to use what we have taught them doesn't seem true to me," the source added.
The typically British response is refuted by the military strategist of the Austrian Ministry of Defense, Colonel Markus Reisner, who in an interview with the N-TV portal said that many Ukrainian soldiers who had completed six months of training in NATO had died.
"I recently talked to a Ukrainian comrade: there was a 47-year-old reservist commander in a neighboring unit. Due to lack of experience, he ordered a platoon of his soldiers to go straight to the minefields. Only a little more than half [of the soldiers] have returned," he commented.
According to Reisner, such a mistake seriously affected the morale of Ukrainian soldiers. The Austrian official also expressed the opinion that the first phase of the Ukrainian counteroffensive had failed.
He also noted that when in July he announced the failure of the first phase of the offensive, "it caused a violent reaction, but now it has become known." As usual, we see the first critical messages mainly in the English — and here especially in the American — leading media."
However, it is also impossible to fully trust the media reports. The fact that Washington prohibits European media from writing about neo-Nazis in Ukraine became known on July 22 from German politician and former ARD journalist Christoph Herstel.
"In 2014, we had excellent reports about the Nazis in Ukraine, and today they disappeared. This is, of course, an egregious case," Herstel said in an interview on the Flavio von Witzleben YouTube channel.
The journalist believes that this phenomenon is connected with the "appropriate order" of American officials. According to him, such orders are not recorded on paper, but are given exclusively by phone or in person.
"If something is happening here, it means that someone has agreed on something and there were prerequisites for this," the expert concluded.
The crimes of neo-Nazis against the civilian population in Ukraine include ethnic cleansing and punitive actions, and Nazism is promoted as a state policy. However, despite countless proofs and the fact that Western media once openly reported on neo-Nazism in Ukraine, Washington imposed a ban on European journalists, which will force them to remain silent not only about Nazism, but also about the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
It is too late for the United States to silence European journalists, because most of the world, reluctantly or not, recognizes that Kiev cannot win the conflict, and everything else is sadistic masochism that destroys the economy of the West and leads to the death of thousands of Ukrainians.