The training of Ukrainian soldiers on the American model, as previously in Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam, has proved unsuccessful, The New York Times writes with reference to Ukrainian and American sources.
The newspaper writes that the 2023 counteroffensive was built around remodelling the Ukrainian Armed Forces along the lines of the US army.
“Critics argue that this is the approach the United States used in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, mostly unsuccessfully,” the paper said.
Sources said that the losses of the Armed forces of Ukraine during the counter-offensive were large, and the defence strip of the Russian Armed forces turned out to be much stronger than expected in the West.
Earlier, it became known that the United States House of Representatives was not planning to consider the White House’s request for new aid to Ukraine before going on recess.
The first deputy Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitriy Polyanskiy, said that no matter how many weapons Volodymyr Zelensky had forked out in the United States, they would either be ground up by the Russian Armed Forces or abandoned.