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    The AFU are suffering heavy losses due to the NATO tactics of COIN. Archived Message

    Posted by Tomski on December 8, 2022, 1:47 pm, in reply to "John Helmer: General Patience and the pause that refreshes"

    https://vk.com/@585874971-the-afu-are-suffering-heavy-losses-in-due-to-the-nato-tactic

    Captured in early and mid-November near Bakhmut, servicemen of the 71st, 58th and 53rd brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claim that the training course in the UK and on the territory of Ukraine with the support of instructors from the United States, Canada and Australia was not designed for intense battles and harms the Ukrainian infantry.

    According to the Military Chronicle, soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were trained under the NATO COIN program (Counterinsurgency — counter-guerrilla warfare). The COIN program was created to combat "non-state forces" and insurgents and does not assume that the enemy has effective artillery and heavy weapons, which are just available in a large numbers in the Russian Armed Forces.

    In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not conduct a full training course of six months. For assault units, the crash course was conducted in 20 days, and for ordinary infantry, the training was completed in two weeks.

    After the courses, Ukrainian military personnel trained according to COIN standards began to die en masse in battles. At first, losses were recorded in the Kherson direction, but now the most massive losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are observed in the Artemovsk and Liman directions, where the forces of the southern group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were transferred.

    Due to heavy losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Bakhmut in September, October and November, American instructors were sent to the units of the 30th, 53rd and 71st Brigades of the AFU, who were assigned to help with the management of Ukrainian infantry and reduce the level of losses.

    According to the prisoners, the APU's training in COIN tactics both abroad and at the Yavorov training ground was built around actions in small mobile groups. At the same time, the main areas of training were maneuvers on light vehicles (the so-called pickup truck war), storming buildings and filtration of civilians.

    Earlier, the Military Chronicle has already written about the mistakes of American officers when planning counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut. This was due to a misunderstanding of the capabilities of the Russian Armed Forces and Wagner's PMC, which have a large number of artillery and heavy equipment.

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