KIEV – Ukraine’s beleaguered forces have faced problems all of their own making as they’ve failed to retake separatist territories during a year of conflict – poor leadership, few supplies, bad coordination.But the main reason Kiev has struggled to reclaim the rebel regions, some analysts in the West and Ukraine say, is that it has been facing off against thousands of regular Russian troops that Moscow poured in to bolster the insurgency despite blanket denials from the Kremlin.”We are not talking about rebel forces, we are talking about Russian troops,” Peter Felstead, an editor at the London-based IHS Jane’s Defence …read more
Source: AsiaOne
