Ukraine Fiasco: Military Documents Show Russia's Catastrophic Mistakes
Created: 12/27/2022 10:54 am
By: Richard Strobl
Russia's plan for the Ukraine war did not work out.
A report from the USA now shows details of catastrophic misjudgments and conditions in the army.
Kyiv/New York – Russia is largely stuck in the Ukraine war.
Kiev's troops were recently on the advance and pushed back Putin's soldiers.
Not even the territories occupied in referendums that violate international law, which the Kremlin describes as part of Russia, are under complete control.
From the very beginning, the Russian military was plagued by major problems - they meant, for example, that Kyiv could never be taken.
New documents now show how big the Russian Ukraine fiasco actually is.
Russia's Ukraine fiasco: Putin's military expected no resistance
The
New York Times
analyzed Russian military documents from the start of the Ukraine invasion.
This included logs, schedules, orders, and other documents.
The US journalists conclude that flaws in Russia's planning and apparent violations of its own military doctrine undermined the invasion from the start.
For example, Russian military planners expected that large parts of Ukraine could be conquered with little or no resistance.
According to this, various military parts received instructions to leave Belarus and reach Kyiv within just 18 hours.
Joint combat training unit of Russian and Belarusian military.
(Archive image) © IMAGO/Russian Defense Ministry Press O
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokeswoman Zakharova claims the West is like George Orwell's 1984 dystopia.
Russia's Ukraine fiasco: Planning contradicts its own military doctrine
In addition, special police units of the OMON riot police and the special task force of the Russian National Guard were placed in the first column of a maneuver element.
A grave mistake, according to the experts at the
Institute for the Study of War
, because: "The riot police are not a suitable command element for a large maneuvering force in a conventional war with violence, as they are not trained to lead combined arms or mechanized warfare." Yes more importantly, this decision is in open violation of Russian military doctrine.
This fact also shows that Russia expected little or no resistance from Ukraine.
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In addition, the analysis of the
New York Times
shows that Russian soldiers in Belarus did not know that they were going to attack Ukraine the day before the invasion.
Some soldiers only found out about the plan an hour before they were deployed.
A retired Russian general
also analyzed the fact that a unified Russian task force was missing for the
NYT .
This meant that there was no uniform planning of actions and orders.
That is why, at about the beginning of the war, there was no serious air and missile campaign, as actually prescribed by Russian military doctrine.
Added to this is the low morale in the troops, which also emerges from the research of the
NYT
.
Many soldiers would have sabotaged their own vehicles to avoid being involved in combat operations.