Kurakhove, Selidove. The missing 152nd brigade. Protests by MIA relatives. The Russian officer training system versus Ukrainian 'extreme indifference'. Personnel and communication problems.
It's interesting that the Ukrainians have this terrible structure in their army of the brigades, in NATO forces these are many to operate as combined arms forces meaning you have a mix of formation types that can intersupport each other and cover each others weaknesses (so infantry, armour, and artillery for example) but in the UAF it seems they're instead like little fiefdoms or warbands operating independently but without the mix of troops to enable them to do so.
For sure. As the famous Ukrainian military journalist Butusov said a couple months back, ' We are the only army in world history without divisions or corps on the front, only brigades. And these brigades are essentially just strengthened regiments. Meanwhile, our enemy is fighting with divisions.'
Can I suggest a rubric? Short descriptions of all Ukrainian battalions. You mention many of them bit it would be cool to have multipart reference of them
That's a good idea, but the problem is that there are so many disparate batallions, brigades etc that it is quite hard to do an overview. This chaos is a big topic that the military analysts I translate often complain about
It's interesting that the Ukrainians have this terrible structure in their army of the brigades, in NATO forces these are many to operate as combined arms forces meaning you have a mix of formation types that can intersupport each other and cover each others weaknesses (so infantry, armour, and artillery for example) but in the UAF it seems they're instead like little fiefdoms or warbands operating independently but without the mix of troops to enable them to do so.
For sure. As the famous Ukrainian military journalist Butusov said a couple months back, ' We are the only army in world history without divisions or corps on the front, only brigades. And these brigades are essentially just strengthened regiments. Meanwhile, our enemy is fighting with divisions.'
https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/palace-intrigues
Can I suggest a rubric? Short descriptions of all Ukrainian battalions. You mention many of them bit it would be cool to have multipart reference of them
That's a good idea, but the problem is that there are so many disparate batallions, brigades etc that it is quite hard to do an overview. This chaos is a big topic that the military analysts I translate often complain about