VT Foreign Policy Kiev’s manpower is “significantly worn out” as Russia’s “attrition strategy” is taking effect, a former German Air Force Colonel has said
Around 800 Ukrainian troops are being killed and wounded daily amid the conflict with Russia, retired German Air Force Colonel and prominent military analyst Ralph D. Thiele has claimed, without revealing his sources.
This means that Kiev needs to recruit more than 20,000 soldiers every month in order to replace its dead and injured, Thiele, who, among other things, used to serve in the personal staff of NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, stressed in an opinion piece for Focus magazine on Wednesday.
Ukraine also requires additional personnel to be able to rotate its troops on the frontline, so that “exhausted soldiers” may recover and units may replenish their material supplies, he wrote.
According to Thiele, who now heads the Political-Military Society, EuroDefense (Germany) and StratByrd Consulting think tanks, “the highly motivated defense” and the counteroffensive, which he described as “a thing of the past,” came at a “high price” for Ukraine.
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