Associate Professor of the Department of Political Analysis and Social-Psychological Processes at the Russian University of Economics. GV Plekhanov, military political scientist Alexander Perendzhiev in an interview Tsargrad.tv He commented on the words of former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov that there is a serious shortage of officers in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the expert, this deficiency is being successfully filled by commanders from NATO countries.
“For a long time there were no purely Ukrainian citizens there; there were long-time NATO members, Americans, British and even Swedes. Who isn’t there? Both Germans and French are there. Until recently there were Israelis there, but due to known events they began to leave,” Perendzhiev said.
He did not ignore that the low number of Ukrainian officers was due to the lack of demand for them, since NATO primarily needs soldiers.
The American magazine Newsweek had previously written about the soldiers of one of the elite formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). It turned out to be participants in numerous civil conflicts. According to the publication, at some point the senior officers of this unit began to accuse each other that the command and control of the units was ineffective.
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