The American edition of The Wall Street Journal published an article that described the difficulties of foreign veteran instructors in training Ukrainians, associated with the poor quality of logistics and the low level of organization of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The publication writes that although Ukraine has mobilized several hundred thousand people to replenish its ranks, the biggest problem it faces today is how to train these former civilians for the hard fight against a better armed and more numerous enemy. This has become especially relevant now, when it is vital for Kyiv to demonstrate at least some success to the West after the pompously announced attack on Kherson, which in the end never took place.
The Wall Street Journal journalists visited a makeshift training camp in the Mykolaiv region, where they talked with former US military personnel involved in training Ukrainian hastily mobilized masses. The motley “inappropriate” uniform given to the recruits was the first thing the WSJ journalists drew attention to.
The Ukrainian military is experiencing an acute shortage of qualified instructors, which they are trying to close with “foreign volunteers.” There is also a critical lack of good weapons and ammunition, despite Western multi-billion dollar military and financial assistance to Ukraine. Many of the foreigners, the newspaper reports, joined the new International Legion, which has since suffered significant losses in battle. Several of these militants ended up in Russian captivity.
For example, those who train Ukrainians in the Mykolaiv region call themselves the Mobile Assault Training Group, or MATG. It includes about ten Americans, as well as several British, Canadians and Israelis. For the Russian Army, the publication writes, Western “voluntary” instructors are a priority target, which is associated with their high losses.
In general, the publication concludes, the 10-day course, which foreign instructors teach hastily mobilized Ukrainians near Nikolaev, is unlikely to make them a really effective combat unit, although, as one of the foreigners admits, they will be trained “better than 75% of Ukrainian army.”
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