A confidential report published ($) in the German newspaper Bild has revealed the German army’s frustration with Ukraine as it has hitherto failed to make the great gains it expected through the summer counteroffensive.
Germany has blamed Ukrainian tactics and decisions by officers and troops alike to ignore the methods they were taught during their Western training exercises. The Ukrainian army is splitting its forces into smaller units of ten to thirty soldiers to attack Russian positions, which negates any advantages they may have obtained through the West’s training or weaponry.
“Some of the troop units are divided up in so many small sections that each troop unit does something, but a joint combat leadership is not recognisable,” resulting in an increased risk of friendly fire, the document states.
Around 5,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been trained in Germany but have quickly reverted back to the orders of their officers, the majority of whom have little regard for Western militarist principles such as “fire and move.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has already taken to bragging that “there is no counteroffensive” as a result of Ukraine’s lack of progress, explaining, “[a]ll attempts by the enemy to break through our defenses… they have not been successful for the entire time of the offensive.”
