>>64081625
Because the Ukrainians were the ones who had the final say, and they're a post-Soviet country in full and their military is STILL full of Soviet officers. All their relevant Soviet officers have Russo-Soviet military trainings, and it's obvious. Low-level initiative, NCO corps, highly-trained individual soldiers with genuine understanding of the enemy? All of these are foreign to Ukraine, because they have never had the chance to actually modernize their military from the Soviet systems it was left with. Sure, the Ukrainians do what they can, but because Russia invaded in 2014, they lost any real chance to actually free themselves from their Soviet legacy and build a Western military system.
