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Sumela » 15 Mar 2024, 7:48 am » wrote: ↑

15 Mar 2024, 7:48 am

Sorry cuckies.

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The French magazine Marianne got access to "several confidential defense reports" from the French army on the situation in Ukraine.Guerre en Ukraine : de la prudence à l'affolement… Ce que cache le virage de Macron (archived) - Marianne, Mar 7 2024

Arnaud Bertrand translation.

The situation looks exceedingly bleak for Ukraine, which might in part explain Macron's recent declarations around sending troops to Ukraine. I translated the important parts of the article:

"A Ukrainian military victory now seems impossible"

 The reports Marianne consulted write that Ukraine's counter-offensive "gradually bogged down in mud and blood
and did not result in any strategic gain.  Its planning, conceived by Kiev and Western general staffs, turned out to be "disastrous"

The reports also highlight "the inadequacy of the training of Ukrainian soldiers and officers":
due to a lack of officers and a significant number of veterans, these "Year II soldiers" from Ukraine -
often trained for "no more than three weeks" - were launched into an assault on a
Russian fortification line that proved impregnable.
 
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/f ... .html#more