MOSCOW, 26 Jul. Many Ukrainian soldiers who have completed six months of training in NATO countries are no more, Colonel Markus Reisner, military strategist of the Austrian Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with N-TV. they had a 47-year-old reservist. Out of inexperience, he ordered a platoon of his soldiers to go straight to the minefields. A little more than half returned,” he said.
An Austrian officer also expressed the opinion that the first phase of the Ukrainian counteroffensive had failed.