MOSCOW, December 5 The Armed Forces of Ukraine complained about the terrible the state of the country's army, reports Business Insider.
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"There are many young guys among us. We need people, but those who have undergone training, and not the green ones that we now have. There are guys who spent only three weeks at the training grounds and managed to shoot only a few times,” journalists quote the words of one of the military men.
A Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier said that it is already difficult for the Ukrainian government to lure people into the army with money payments, and now only those who did not manage to escape the draft are taken into it. He also added that not all Ukrainian marines know how to swim.
Earlier, the Washington Post reported that uncertainty prevails in the Armed Forces of Ukraine on all fronts, and morale is weakening.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny in an interview The Economist magazine acknowledged the deadlock in the conflict and stated that “most likely, there will not be a deep and beautiful breakthrough.” According to Zaluzhny, according to “NATO textbooks,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces should have already “fought war” in Crimea. Later, Vladimir Zelensky, at a joint press conference with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, justified himself, saying that “this is not a stalemate.”