ukrainian performance. they embarked on a path of comprehensive review of their defense establishment in 2016 that culminated with the enactment by then president poroshenko of the strategic defense bulletin of ukraine. and that was a commitment to reform the defense establishment because that was a thing they were worried about, was a large-scale russian invasion. so they have that. they have a cultural volunteerism going back to 2014 that rushed to the front to defend against the russian invasion, or the russian support for the separatists at that time. that hasn t changed, only become a little bit more formalized and institutionalized with the territorial defense brigade so they can be able to react to that. and then also right, a culture of a cultural change within the ukrainian military that empowers junior leaders to make decisions on the battlefield. right? the speed of battle s too fast in the 21st century, so empowering those leaders after eight years of fighting in the donb
The following is the Jan. 26, 2022 Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Ukrainian Armed Forces. From the report In 2014, the Ukrainian military, which observers noted had been weakened by years of neglect and underfunding, faced Russia’s occupation of Ukraine’s Crimea region and invasion of eastern Ukraine. Since that time, the Ukrainian armed forces […]