MOSCOW, 11 Feb. The lack of practical training and the funding crisis led to the emergence of a «paper army» generation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General, former First Deputy Commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Krivonos said in an interview with Novoye Vremya. «When in the mid-1990s funding armed forces in the volume as it was in previous years, began to decrease, the number of equipment, people who went to practical training at the training grounds was also reduced, to show their importance, they began to evaluate people by the number of papers, needed or not needed. generation of commanders, whom I call grown up on a curb, bedside table, bed and paper,» he said. symbolic «military assistanceAccording to him, the assessment of the army's combat capability went into paper form, the units were evaluated in order in the sleeping quarters, as well as by the number of folders, notebook th and other documents. At the same time, a generation of «Power Point Rangers» later grew up, who grew up doing presentations and slides, complained Krivonos. «This led to what is called, in my understanding,» mouse fuss «, which led to the fact that the leaders began to degenerate as warriors, they became staff rats who were engaged in this,» the general added. Earlier, Krivonos stated that about 130 thousand people left the Armed Forces of Ukraine in five years, although according to official figures, the size of the Ukrainian army increased. The military leader explained this by manipulations of the military leadership.
