The counteroffensive against Russia is being hampered by the entrenched ways of Ukraine’s senior military, a leaked report says
Germany’s armed forces have criticised the tactics adopted by the Ukrainian army in its counteroffensive against Russian positions and said that battle-hardened troops and officers were ignoring methods taught in western training, according to a leaked Bundeswehr paper.
The Bild newspaper reported that it had obtained a confidential German army assessment of the Ukrainian assault that Kyiv has admitted is making slower progress than hoped.
The Ukrainian forces were splitting their western-trained brigades into small units of just ten to 30 soldiers in some cases to attack an enemy position, which meant they weren’t putting their western training, superior weapons or large troop numbers to use, the report said.
#Ukraine: A Russian 2S7[M] Pion 203mm self-propelled howitzer was destroyed by a GMLRS strike of the Ukrainian army near Roty, #Donetsk Oblast – filmed by a 🇵🇱 WB FlyEye recon UAV.
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— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 23, 2023
