Time Is Not On Kyiv's Side

Wounded Ukrainian soldiers are treated outside the embattled city of Lysychansk, Ukraine, on June 26, 2022. (Heidi Levine/for The Washington Post)  

Andrew Milburn, Modern War Institute: Time Is Not on Kyiv’s Side: Training, Weapons, and Attrition in Ukraine 

The battalion commander shrugged helplessly when we advised him that five days was a completely inadequate amount of time in which to train his soldiers. “This is all we have—they are needed on the front,” he replied with grim finality. A few days later, on a separate course that we were running for his medics, half of our class disappeared on the second day. “We have had casualties,” was the only explanation we received. Even in units that fall within the Ukrainian special operations command, most soldiers are sent to the front line with very little training. In one such unit, we estimated that just 20 percent had even fired a weapon before heading to combat.  

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WNU Editor: The above report is another think tank raising the alarm (justifiably in my opinion) on the progress of the war in Ukraine. This follows The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) sober report on the Ukraine war last week .... The West Is No Longer The Arsenal Of Democracy (June 23, 2022). 

Check out the Sky News video below from a Ukrainian commander of an elite military unit saying that 80% of his troops have been killed or injured.