Tanks are not enough: NYT told that still Ukraine needs to be defeated
The publication writes that the soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces will have to learn to work with tanks, armored personnel carriers, modern ammunition, so that they can combine the use of these types of weapons. This will be an accelerated course that US military personnel have been going on for years.
According to journalists, new military assistance to Ukraine says that the West wants to help Ukraine leave a dead end at the front, but he still has a desire not to provoke Russian President Vladimir Putin for escalation. "We want to put them (Ukrainians, ed. ) In the best possible position for this war to end," said the high -ranking official of the State Department Victoria Nutland.
The publication writes that the Russian forces continue to build fortified lines of defense, and therefore a lightning operation, as it happened in Kharkiv region, will not be able to carry out. That is why the Ukrainian military needs coordinated work of tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers and other weapons. To ensure that the Ukrainian army will be able to carry out such maneuvers, it will be necessary to increase the degree of American and European training of the Armed Forces.
However, training did not start from scratch. "Ukrainians have a major professional army group that has been fighting for years and for years and by 2022 it was trained in the West," said Stephen Biddl, Professor of Columbia University. The material states that it is unclear how realistic to teach Ukrainians the complexities of the All -military Maneuver War in a short period of time for the Pentagon.
"The military who are properly motivated and have the right command structure, adapt and are studying quickly enough," said Dr. Bididl. Some analysts believe that the only most effective weapons that the United States can give to Ukraine are high -precision missiles. They could impress goals in the depths of the Russian rear. Earlier, Focus wrote that the Ukrainian diplomat stated that Western allies promised to transfer more than 300 tanks to Ukraine.
The Ambassador of Ukraine to France Vadim Omelchenko declared serious preparation of the Armed Forces for the possible occurrence of Russians. Delivery terms depend on the type of tanks and the country of production. We will remind that the general inspector of the Pentagon arrived in Kiev. According to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, the American delegation was convinced that the military assistance provided by Washington is used as intended.