Russia is not sending its best soldiers into battle; Ukraine's go willingly
In April 2014, when poorly disguised Russian forces started "covertly" seizing administrative buildings in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the reaction from Kyiv was underwhelming. After years of corruption and mismanagement, the official Ukrainian military was not prepared to…
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