The WSJ newspaper reported on the complaints of the Ukrainian military against NATO equipment

The Ukrainian military is dissatisfied with the training of its officers in the West and NATO equipment. Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told The Wall Street Journal about this.

The newspaper cites the words of the Ukrainian commander with the call sign Finn. In particular, he said that due to weather conditions, Western vehicles have difficulty moving around the country, as they were created for urban battles and the desert. In addition, according to him, some officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not sufficiently trained, they do not have combat experience, which leads them to “disorientation in stressful situations.”

Also, the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the first days of the counteroffensive faced problems due to the preparation of Russian troops for the start of the attacks. “They were just waiting for us … positions were prepared everywhere. It was a “steel wall,” the military said, quoted by the media.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine undertook a counter-offensive, concentrating a large number of personnel and military equipment in different parts of the contact line. Information about the start of the offensive operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was confirmed by Russian and Ukrainian leaders Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky.

At the same time, CNN reported that Ukrainian forces have stepped up hostilities in the Zaporozhye region, but there is no talk of a full-fledged counteroffensive yet. The actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are probing the defense of the Russian Armed Forces for the presence of weaknesses and checking their combat readiness, the media pointed out with reference to the Ukrainian military. The media also reported that this “reconnaissance in force” was large-scale and resulted in significant losses in the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.