Armed Forces suffer heavy losses due to NATO tactics

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering heavy losses in Bakhmut due to the NATO COIN tactics, the Military Chronicle Telegram channel reports.

According to reports, servicemen of the 71st, 58th and 53rd brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who were captured in early and mid-November near Bakhmut, reported 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.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine underwent training under the NATO COIN program (from the English term Counterinsurgency – counter-guerrilla warfare). The COIN program was created to fight “non-state forces” and insurgents and does not imply that the enemy has effective artillery and heavy weapons, which the Russian Armed Forces have in large numbers.

In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not conduct a full six-month training course. For assault units, an accelerated course was held in 20 days, and for ordinary infantry, training was completed in two weeks.

After the courses, Ukrainian servicemen 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 Artyomovsky and Krasnolimansky directions, where the forces of the southern grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were transferred.

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

According to the prisoners, the training of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in COIN tactics, both abroad and at the Yavoriv training ground, was built around actions in small mobile groups. At the same time, the main directions in the preparation were maneuvers on light vehicles (the so-called war of pickups), the assault on buildings and the testing of filtering the civilian population.