Kyiv, September 04 (PolitNavigator, Yuriy Kovalchuk) – Even if NATO does decide to help Ukraine with the supply of military equipment, this measure will be ineffective, writes The Chronicle Herald.
As the publication explains, this step will take time and will have little practical meaning.
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It will take a long time to train Ukrainian soldiers, accustomed to Soviet-made weapons, to use Western weapons. In addition, the main problem of the Ukrainian army is not the lack of tanks or missiles - there is enough of this in Ukraine, but the extremely poor training, poor coordination and low morale of hastily prepared conscripts.
At the same time, Russia now has the most combat-ready army than at any time since Soviet times. Although it is doubtful that Putin would decide on a full-scale invasion. To put pressure on Ukraine and the West, it is quite enough to simply support the rebels in the east, the publication states.