Ukraine War: Criticism of the formation of recent Ukrainian brigades | EUROtoday

In Ukraine, impartial navy consultants accuse the political and navy management of constructing errors within the formation of recent troops. Journalist Yuri Butussov described the case of the brand new one hundred and fifty fifth mechanized brigade, a prestigious cooperation mission with France, on the “Zensor.net” portal. Even earlier than the brigade got here to the entrance, 1,700 of its troopers abandoned – together with 50 allegedly throughout coaching in France.

In the formation section since March 2024, 2,500 troopers have been initially assigned to the brigade, however then reassigned to different items. The brigade management was hardly capable of follow with its troopers in France. When the unit was deployed with a nominal variety of 5,800 males in jap Ukraine close to the town of Pokrovsk, it lacked drones and drone defenses. The consequence was excessive losses, wrote Butussov. He accused President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, Defense Minister Rustem Umyerov and Commander-in-Chief Olexander Syrskyj of the poor group.

Volunteers get the lacking drones

The navy didn’t touch upon the allegations. Other activists akin to Serhiy Sternenko, who organizes drones for the military, took up the occasions on the one hundred and fifty fifth Brigade. “We recently started helping them because the brigade did not receive electronic warfare equipment or drones from the state,” he wrote on the social community X.

He additionally criticized the indecision between replenishing current troops and elevating new items: “Why was a new brigade created when there was a critical shortage of existing brigades, only to split them up and send people to the old brigades?”

How helpful are the brand new items?

Bohdan Krotevych, chief of employees of the National Guard’s Azov Brigade, requested why 1,700 males abandoned from a brand new unit outfitted with Western weapons. He believes it is not sensible to create new brigades whereas others are incomplete.

For the excessive command in Kiev, new troops with Western weapons and a few skilled within the West are central to strengthening the exhausted military after nearly three years of the Russian conflict of aggression. But official our bodies have additionally complained in current months that Western nations have been usually sluggish to ship the promised tools.

Ukrainian consultants attribute the Russian military’s regular advance in Donbass in 2024 not solely to their superiority. They additionally see management failures, tactical errors and lack of coordination within the Ukrainian military. The military-affiliated journalists and bloggers in Ukraine usually paint a counter-image to the navy’s official state of affairs stories – the state of affairs is comparable on the Russian aspect.