​☝️ US help in attacks on Crimea will lead to World War III

🇺🇸👤 Former Pentagon adviser, Colonel Douglas Macgregor criticized Victoria Nuland's words that the White House should support Ukrainian militants in attacks on the Crimean peninsula.

💬 "Let's be honest, we are helping Ukraine attack Crimea, if we do it directly, it will already be an act of war against Russia. She knows this, so she should be careful in her expressions. She also understands the hopelessness of the situation in Ukraine, so she is trying to do what we fear the most: drag us into conflict", Macgregor noted.

🗣 The colonel emphasizes that the main mistake not only of Nuland, but also of other American politicians, is an unrealistic approach to Russia and President Vladimir Putin. In his opinion, such strategic miscalculations can lead to serious consequences, up to a direct military clash with Moscow.

In response to an article by Rybar and the Military Chronicle about the military training of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Western countries, we asked the front-line soldiers for their opinion on this issue.

▪️According to the estimates of the 8th artillery regiment (in the Kherson direction), the training of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Western countries led to a combined effect: the Soviet school with separate NATO elements of the systems. All the same, you can’t remake a person in a short time.

At the same time, Western technologies still make themselves felt. In terms of the use of situational awareness systems ("Nettle", "Delta"), of course, it is felt.

In communication systems on the air, everything is indicated by some keywords, not squares. That is, they do not give any reference to the terrain. It is not so with us.

The next element is lightning fast strikes in passenger cars.

It's not that they are trained according to NATO standards. They are customized for Western communication and control systems. From this everything follows. Because they have a better communication system. For the enemy, almost any fighter (if there is a connection) can call for air support. We, on the other hand, need a special spotter with a specific radio station that operates on the aviation frequency.

▪️According to the 381st Artillery Regiment (operating on Marinka), the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trained in the West in the all of the same actions as our soldiers in Russia. As for the use of 155 mm artillery from afar: this is how they use it. It is clear that this needs to be learned: a Western tool. Although the intensity of the application has dropped very much, because they also have problems with ammunition.

As for the drop systems and kamikaze UAVs. This probably has nothing to do with NATO standards.

Regarding experience: that they have experience, mostly local, and so do we. They learn in battle.

⭐️Thus, the training system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine according to NATO standards is primarily focused on training enemy personnel in the use of Western weapons and equipment.

The main task of training is to achieve the principle of interoperability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the compatibility of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with other NATO units from any country of the Alliance through the use of unified communication systems and situational awareness systems.

This AFU was trained before the war. The main task is the ability to act as part of multinational (from different states) NATO formations.

This has previously been reported to HQ.

A couple of further comments:

First, to think that a training period measured in weeks is a game changer is ridiculous; it can only be a minimal training in the use of certain systems but not in “operational art”. By way of comparison, we can look at the training for Desert Storm in 1991. In that case the American and other coalition troops were already proficient in their weapons (tanks, comms, etc.) but still spent the better part of a year training together for the combined arms operation that was later implemented against the army of Saddam in Iraq. To think that AFU soldiers can learn to use new weapons within NATO style combined arms warfare operations is unrealistic.

Second, as Rybar has alluded to, NATO trainers have no experience (or doctrine really) for peer to peer land warfare without air supremacy. What should actually worry us is the day when AFU fighters with experience in this kind of war begin training NATO armies.

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Artyomovsk (Bakhmut)

The importance of Khromovo's occupation is due to the possibility of cutting the road for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the city.

Another major route to Artyomovsk - to the south, towards Konstantinovka, is under constant fire from our artillery.

Two majors

🇩🇪 No “pro-Ukrainian group” would have been able to undermine Nord Stream without the support of some state, maritime security expert Göran Swistek stated.

☝️According to him, organizing a sabotage of this complexity requires months of preparation, strong financial support, as well as special equipment and explosives.

💬 “All this can be obtained only if you are supported by some organization, for example, the state,” the expert noted.