this unit was poached by other units iirc. they didn't deploy to combat and talent was being taken from the unit to reinforce others off the books through personal invitations. highly experienced or active units have been literally paying sign on bonuses personally for people with combat experience to join their unit instead of being assigned to a unit randomly. they're also running their own extended training schemes expanding on shit you'd normally learn in peace time basic in western militaries but is being briefed or skipped because deployment pipeline needs to be fast.   drama sells. western media has interests in following government policy to remain keeping their access to officials, but selling ukraine hope stories three years in just isn't paying as much as doomerposting.   ukraine barely receives any decent level of aid with the entire west just assuming that 30-40 year old guys who've never made soldiering their career and have had maybe a couple months at best training, will operate on the same level as some western soldier who's been coddled with every sort of weapons training, simulation, active deployment into combat zones where all your enemies are semi retarded so you build experience, etc. retards in the west assumed a couple dozen tanks and a few dozen ifvs was going to be enough to break through three defensive lines where the enemy knew the attack was coming, because on paper a western unit would be capable of doing such a thing. they don't care to actually give enough material to let the ukrainians overmatch their enemies because they're a bunch of stingy cunts who don't want to spend a load of money if they don't have to. ziggers meanwhile wanna keep pouring drunks and retards into the front to try keep momentum, bleeding manpower and material dry just to cling on a little longer hoping for some sort of situation change. i don't know what's worse.
United Kingdom