(Europa) Ukrainische Heeresstreitkräfte

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Die Ukraine strukturiert ihr Heer um (oder beginnt zumindest damit):

Ukraine Army to Field NATO-Style Corps Units for First Time in Major Command Upgrade

Army Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky may ruffle feathers with a plan to convert his best fighting brigades – many led by young, battle-tested officers - into modern combined arms formations.

In a sweeping reform intended to make over the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s (AFU) often-haphazard regional command structure into a modern warfighting machine, commanding general Oleksandr Syrsky on Monday announced that the Ukrainian army will convert its frontline formations into corps-sized command groups built around some of the AFU’s most effective combat brigades.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an evening television address, said the deep changes to AFU headquarters structure and fighting unit chains of command would improve combat efficiency and make possible rotations of units – sometimes deployed to the fighting line for more than a year – to rear areas for rest and recuperation.

A common and longstanding complaint by Ukrainian frontline commanders and troops is a three-year-old AFU policy of juggling hundreds of small units in and out of deployments along a 1,000-kilometer-long (621-mile-long) front, without a centralized local command.

Army headquarters in Kyiv often micromanages even tiny battles, making coordination and even exchange of basic information about enemy locations and friendly fortifications between actual units doing the fighting difficult, those complaints say.

Ukrainian military media on Tuesday confirmed initial orders for the restructuring had gone out and a reported six corps headquarters would take over direct control of sectors of the front, and that each would be assigned five combat brigades, on paper giving each corps formation a front-line strength of 12-15,000 men and around 700-900 heavy weapons such as tanks, armored personnel carriers or artillery.

Ganzer Artikel hier: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46570