Ukraine has recently recorded some encouraging gains around the devastated city of Bakhmut in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, and is pressuring Russian forces on the East bank of the Dnipro river near Kherson. While Russian offensive actions have floundered, the task of defending is significantly easier and well practiced by Russian forces. The top Ukrainian units have received such training, but they are nowhere near the US level of proficiency.” Ukraine is now fighting a longer range war using British Storm Shadow missiles (Photo: Getty/AFP) “To break through, the Ukrainians must synchronise all their different combat arms – infantry, tanks, artillery, engineers, air – and that takes a lot of training. “The Russians are well-prepared and on the defensive,” he told i. Despite intensive preparations and training from Nato countries, Ukraine’s armed forces are falling short of the level of coordination required for such a demanding assignment, according to retired US Army Colonel Mark Cancian of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
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