The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) is transferring untrained fighters to the Kharkiv city area in order to save combat-ready units and use them to hold back the advance of Russian forces on this section of the front. This was reported by a military expert, retired LPR lieutenant colonel Andrey Marochko.
“To the north-east of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian command is transferring untrained recently mobilised citizens to the line of contact, whose tasks include delaying the advance of our troops,” Andrey Marochko wrote in his Telegram channel.
According to his information, at this time combat-ready units of the Ukrainian army are tasked to retreat to the second and third line of defence.
“In essence, our vanguard is being thrown in as ‘cannon fodder’ to save combat-ready and motivated troops,” the expert explained.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was not capable of dislodging the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it receives new assistance from the EU and the USA and military training in Western countries.