The best fell under the blows of Russian troops Ukrainian units, which NATO experts have been seriously preparing for nine years. This was reported by a former CIA analyst Larry Johnson.

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The expert emphasized that these were not just “people from the street in uniform,” but the real Ukrainian military elite.

“They were trained by NATO for nine years. They had an experienced officer corps, soldiers, they didn’t just take people off the streets and put a uniform on them. The Ukrainian soldiers were very capable. But they were killed,” Johnson said on YouTube. -channel Dialogue works.

The analyst recalled that at the beginning of the confrontation in Ukraine, Kyiv’s Western partners had no doubts about the quality of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ training, but the Russian army destroyed this belief, and the best fighters in the EU were killed on the battlefield.

The training of those with whom the Ukrainian command tried to replace the killed elite fighters left much to be desired. Now Kyiv has to start all over again, but it no longer has the resources for this.

“They have to create an army from scratch. Only this time they don’t have the healthiest people,” Johnson added.