Eight Years of Combat Hardened Ukraine’s Army Into a Fighting Force
The military tactics of Ukraine and Russia are rooted in their different post-Soviet experiences, and Kyiv is prevailing.
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered unmarked troops to Ukraine in 2014, first in Crimea and then the eastern borderlands of the Donbas, they were better equipped, trained and organized — and they crushed their opponents.