60 Percent of Ukrainian Casualties Due to Friendly Fire and Incompetence

Breitbart ^ | 2-22-2015 | Donna Rachel Edmunds

[tcrlaf]

More than half of the Ukrainian casualties in the battle against Russian-backed separatists are killed by friendly fire and lack of training, a British army veteran who volunteered with the Ukrainian forces has revealed. The soldier, known only as “Saffron”, confirmed that the Ukrainian forces were in complete disarray, lacking basic equipment and having no concept of military strategy.

Last week Ukrainian forces suffered defeat at Debaltseve. But Saffron, a 40 year old naturalised Briton of Ukrainian descent, told the Sunday Times that the defeat was inevitable thanks to incompetent leadership and lack of training.

“Six out of 10 casualties among the Ukrainian volunteers occur because of blue-on-blue shooting and the inability to handle weapons. It was clear Debaltseve would turn into a disaster for Ukraine, but the military command and their political bosses just watched it happen in slow motion,” he said.

The command is so bad that it endangers the lives of soldiers,” he said. “They confuse tactics with strategy; they launch attacks without warning each other and for no apparent strategic reason.

“There are nearly 30 voluntary battalions and a number of regular units, but every group is fighting their own war. They don’t have central command, they don’t co-ordinate and they don’t even share radio frequencies between themselves, which makes it impossible to communicate.”

The Maidan activists were the worst, a lot of them seem to be jobless, aimless people who joined the force but are unwilling to learn discipline. I would try to teach them something, and they would say, "Who are you to lecture me? I threw Molotov cocktails during the Maidan. ”

[roofgoat]

my thoughts too. not enough pissed off men in our Countries.

[jmacusa]

If Putin gets away with this he'll cast his eye on Finland, which the Russians always considered theirs and was, until 1918 anyway. Both sides would love the chance to settle old scores there. After that there would the Baltic States and Poland. There's no end to the bloody history of ‘’The Russian Bear’’. It could be the equivalent of the Middle East in Eastern Europe-- with nukes. Picking another fight with Poland would be a big mistake for Vlad. There are probably no two peoples on this earth who hate each other as much as Poland and Russia. I've known many Poles in my life who salivate at the thought of mixing it up with "Ivan''.