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Putin Should Worry: Ukraine Has 40,000 Troop ‘Storm Brigades’ Ready for War
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...roop-storm-brigades-ready-for-war/ar-AA19VYfq
Ukraine War Update: The
Ukrainian military is setting up
eight “storm brigades” of 40,000 troops each to lead the way in the upcoming counteroffensive.
According to recent
reports, the Ukrainian General Staff is standing up these elite units to push back Russian forces as far out of Ukraine as possible.
Storm Brigades for Ukraine
The Ukrainian military intends to mix the
storm brigades with more experienced units in the
upcoming counteroffensive.
To attract more recruits, the
Ukrainian military has given flashy names to the new units, including Hurricane, Spartan, Chervona Kalyna, Frontier, Rage, Azov and Kara Dag, and Border of Steel.
Key to the creation of these units is Western training and support. The United States and the United Kingdom, in particular, have provided key, continued support to the
Ukrainian military.
“We are putting all of these pieces together to provide full, lasting, combat-credible capabilities covering all of the steps from the donation, to the training, to the maintenance and sustainment.
The substantial resources the United States has committed to Ukraine reflects the American interests and values that are at stake,” a senior U.S. defense official
stated recently during a press briefing at the Pentagon.
Eight storm brigades of 40,000 men each would amount to 320,000 troops. That is no small number. More than 13 months in to the war, the
Ukrainian military has suffered heavy casualties. Western intelligence estimates put the number of total Ukrainian casualties to more than 100,000, though more of them are wounded than dead.
Despite the existential threat posed by the
Russian invasion, Ukraine is still using a volunteer military. Kyiv is pushing hard to recruit more troops to make up for the losses it’s taking on the ground. There is, justifiably, a lot of talk about the high Russian casualties (between 180,000 and 220,000, according to the latest estimates), but there isn’t a lot of information about the
Ukrainian losses.
Kyiv has shrewdly masked the actual number of losses it has suffered in the war so far. But Western intelligence estimates assess that they are on par—maybe on the lower end—with the Russian losses. The biggest difference between the two militaries is that the
Ukrainian military have suffered more wounded than killed compared to the Russian forces.
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