Media: fifty percent of the Kyiv security forces were killed due to shelling from their
Less than half of the losses among the Ukrainian security forces during the conflict in the Donbass occurred due to poor equipment, inability to handle weapons and the erroneous fire from his own troops, says the British weekly newspaper The Sunday Times, which interviewed the British military instructor.
the magazine has an interview with former British soldier, "who resigned to become an instructor" formations of the Ukrainian nazvanie in may last year. The story is about living in London " 40-year-old naturalized the British Ukrainian origin, who served in Afghanistan and the middle East." Military expert, identified only Callsign Saffron, " revealed the true degree of disorganization among the military forces of Kiev ". According to his estimates collected by the Kyiv forces are composed mostly of volunteers and conscripts and bear huge losses due to frequent incidents of firing on his own, and also because of the inability to handle weapons ". According to him, these reasons are explained as " six of the ten losses in manpower Kyiv security forces. He believes the military defeat of Kiev as a consequence of the failure of command and lack of skills and discipline that determines the losses, reports a news Agency." It was clear that Debaltsevo will turn into a disaster for Ukraine, but the military Command (Kiev) and their political leadership just watched this happens in slow motion, " said British Instructor with the Callsign Saffron. As said magazine, He also participated in the battles of the battalions of Kiev in the East of Ukraine, as well as among them under Debaltsevo." The command is so bad that casts (unnecessary) risk the lives of soldiers", He added. The fighter said that the commanders of the forces of Kiev " confuse tactics with strategy, begin attacking without warning one another and without a clear strategic reasons "." There are about 30 volunteer battalions and a few regular branches, but each group maintains its own war. They have no Central command, they are Not coordinated, they don't even have the common radio frequencies, which makes communication impossible, " said Saffron, which is returned (in London) in the past month ". The instructor told about the failure of attempts to accustom to digital radios from Motorola Ukrainian fighters who eventually prefer to communicate by phone, and also use Twitter and other social networks." All I saw was contrary to what I was taught in the British army, " said Saffron. According to him, " with milanowskima activists most difficult: most of them seem to be unemployed, aimless people... Not willing to learn the discipline ". Remember, in early February it was announced that the victims of the fighting in the Ukraine, according to the German special services were about 50 thousand People, which is almost 10 times more than is contained in the official data. Thus, according to the UN on 17 February, the number of victims of the armed conflict in the East of Ukraine for the last nine months amounted to about 5 665 thousand people.
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