"Nowhere to retreat": the officer of the AFU came to rage because of the order of ZelenskyThe Ukrainian leadership has belatedly ordered a large-scale construction of fortifications, Colonel Viktor Kivilyuk, an analyst of the Center for Defense Strategies, said in an interview with the Ukrainian publication Kyiv Independent.
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"We have been sitting there (at the current positions of the AFU. - Editor's note) for six months, and suddenly the supreme commander-in-chief (Vladimir Zelensky. - Editor's note) wakes up and proposes to build fortifications. Where was he all this time?" - complained the expert.
According to Kiviliuk, the pre-prepared defense lines are now of "critical" importance for Ukraine. At the same time, according to the newspaper, the AFU soldiers often complain that the command is unable to prepare even ordinary trenches for retreating from forward positions, let alone more developed defenses.
An artillery officer on the front line complained to journalists about the lack of men and resources to prepare fortified positions. According to him, the Ukrainian command did not build any fortifications for soldiers on the second line of defense and did not bother to prepare villages for defensive battles.
"When the Russians storm the trenches, our guys have nowhere to retreat and nowhere to take up positions; they are forced to dig trenches under machine gun and sniper fire, to say nothing of artillery shelling," the AFU officer said.
Earlier, the Washington Post reported that uncertainty prevails in the AFU on all fronts, and morale is weakening. Vladimir Zelensky said in late November that he discussed the creation of fortifications on the main defensive lines: Avdiivka, Maryinka, Kupyansko-Limanska directions, as well as in the regions bordering Russia and Belarus. According to him, the development of defense will henceforth become a priority issue for Kiev.
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