General Staff of Ukraine announces formation of officer strike unit; doubts raised by NBS Major, National Guard Staff Officer

17:58, 15 December 2023

An interesting announcement has been made by the General Staff of Ukraine – the commander of the Russian armed forces group “Dnepr”, General Teplinskii, has issued an order to create an officer strike unit.

In the TV24 program “Actuals about military operations in Ukraine”, NBS Major, National Guard Staff Officer Jānis Slaidiņš states that he does not want to question the statement of the General Staff of Ukraine, but knowing that the lack of officers is large enough, creating shock units from officers is an incomprehensible step:

“Like during the civil war, when Kolchak and Denikin had regiments of officers who attacked… I don’t know where they will get so much to form shock troops. Maybe some hooligans, drunkards who have made a mess, such officers may have been put in, but usually officers are assigned to command. It is difficult to comment on this statement by the General Staff.”

Slaidins does not believe that it is possible to form effective combat units, shock units from Russian officers, because there is a shortage of them in the Russian army:

“Russia is already filling the “holes” with university graduates – officers who have studied at universities and graduated from the Department of War. The training there is nothing like that… You cannot compare an officer who has studied for four years in a specific specialty with one who has walked the corridors and learned something there. They say about these university officers – “He is the same officer as a bullet sticking out of shit”.

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