Armed Forces Press By Pete Blaber
All over the eastern front, Ukrainian troops are in retreat. As the Ukrainian Military struggles to reconsolidate and hold their lines, soldiers and their commanders are growing concerned over ineffective command and control, lack of logistic support, and staggering casualty rates.
“We don’t know what the units around us are doing. The LOC (line of contact) is quite fluid, when we detect gaps in the Russian lines and we request permission to move forward and fill the gaps, we don’t get quick answers from our command. When our lines come under heavy artillery attack, sometimes the best thing is to fall back to a stronger position, but it takes too long to get an answer, so we stay where we are and take casualties. We never have enough artillery support while the Russians seem to never run out. We get told to go to a location and set up a position, but no one tells us why we are going there or how long we will stay.”
The comments above came from two mid-level Ukrainian soldiers while they were training in Poland in 2024. Both soldiers had been fighting since 2020. Their “guys on-the-ground” comments partly explain why the Ukrainian Military’s line of contact collapsed in Kursk in March 2025, when Russian forces launched the “Pipe Operation.” Ukraine’s counter-offensive in Kursk will likely go down as one of the biggest strategic mistakes of the war. Ukraine’s losses after 7 months of fighting in Kursk are stunning: over 69,120 soldiers killed; 400 tanks and 620 infantry fighting vehicles destroyed; 2,503 motor vehicles; 568 artillery guns; 59 MLRS launchers and 13 of HIMARS destroyed. For context, the US lost 58,000 men in Viet Nam from 1963-1973…
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