The decision of the governments of the USA, France and Germany, Ukraine, respectively combat vehicle Infantry Unit (Ifv), the Amx 10Rc wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle and the Marder Ifv indicate that the Kiev War against Russia is drawing to a close new stage in the first half of 2023 with an increased focus on firepower. Before the outbreak of major hostilities between Ukraine and Russia in 2022, NATO allies were involved in several training programs intends to modernize and mature the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the face of the threat posed by Russia.
Since the invasion, NATO countries have embarked on an extensive development program tactics and knowledge on the battlefield as in the British Operation Interflex. However, any advance of the Ukrainian armed forces in the spring requires a large radius of combined operations including platforms now made available to them by the United States, France, Germany and others. On January 5th, Pentagon General Pat Ryder said something like that 12,000 Ukrainians They received a standard NATO training rating. The next stage revealed by Ryder would be combined armed and joint maneuver training, likely to take place at locations in Germany.
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The US goal is that every month or so 500 Ukrainian forces are trained at battalion level. “This will provide them with further education and give them greater skills act on the level combined arms to give you an advantage on the battlefield,” Ryder explained during the briefing. At this point in the conflict, operations could take a turn other directionfrom static fronts to combined armed warfare striving to take the initiative on the battlefield.
On the Donbass front, Russia has changed its strategy by targeting Bakhmut’s flanks. On the evening of January 11, Yevgeny Prigozhin reiterated that Russian forces had taken the city of Soledar in the Donetsk region, despite Kiev’s denials. “Once again I would like to confirm the complete Release of Soledar by units of the Ukrainian army,” Prigozhin said, adding that they were civilians evacuated and which the Moscow forces eliminated 500 Ukrainian soldiers they didn’t want to give up.
The Wagner Group plays a role in all of this very active. The fall of Soledar had already been announced by the President of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin. Meanwhile, the Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu announced one more change at the head of the military special operation in Ukraine. Army General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, was appointed commander the joint troop formation.
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His deputies are three: the Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces (Vks), General of the Army Sergei Surovikin; the Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces, Army General Oleg Salyukov; the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Colonel-General Alexei Kim – a native of Kazan on the Volga, the capital of the Tatars. Gerasimov is considered “the man who never laughs” and is the longest-lived of the “survivors” alongside Putin. A general strategist: his theory of “Hybrid Warfare” in which he has already emphasized in the past: “In terms of the extent of the casualties and destruction, the catastrophic social, economic and political consequences, these new type of conflicts are comparable to the consequences of a real war. The rules of warfare have changed. The role of non-military means in achieving political and strategic goals has increased, and in many cases has surpassed the power of weapons in effectiveness.
It’s definitely going in the right direction new stage partly with new weapons and more soldiers. The ceasefire announced during the Christmas holidays practically never existed and the field demonstrates the opposite.