Man, Weapons, Mission: As the Armed Forces of Ukraine changed for 2022

There are still a lot of problems, but in eight years of war with the Russian Federation, the Ukrainian army has acquired itself in three dimensions - a person, missions and quality of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by February 24, 2022 and the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the end of 2022 - these are two completely different armies. The first and most important difference.

It is not even a new Western weapon (although it will still be said), but how the internal core of the Ukrainian army changed, in the understanding of its purpose and communication with the whole people. Usually, this condition is called the People's Army or, as they say in Israel: "The people form the army and the army shapes the people.

" Before the full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine, on February 24, the Armed Forces were eight years in a state of limited war from the Russian Federation in eastern Ukraine. In these eight years, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian defenders have passed through the front or at least through service in the army. This has created a tremendous reserve of people with combat experience, motivation, understanding and willingness that a limited war will develop into something more and more.

It is these people who became the main core of mobilization, which was declared in Ukraine in February 2022, and today all the forces of Ukraine's defense are already under one million people. If the Armed Forces were once a typical army of our time (that is, simply by the power instrument of the state) and consisted of only a few hundred thousand employees, today it is a large national army of national level.

Add a million volunteer movement to this-you will get a scale for a truly military organization that has been unprecedented in Europe since World War II. The second important difference is understanding your purpose.

If the Armed Forces "until February 24" could not boast of some more serious mission than restraining the enemy in eastern Ukraine, today there is a clear list of goals: protection of citizens of Ukraine, the defeat of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the return of the territory of Ukraine to the borders of 1991.

Truly, the Ukrainian army, as it was defined by the classics of statehood of the past, is the guarantor of protecting the sovereignty of the Ukrainian state and the people who live in this state. After these two factors - a person (and a person is the most important in the army) and understanding of this person's mission - now we can mention the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces. The third important difference.

The Armed Forces of the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion were usually based on Soviet specimens. Yes, there was a number of HMMWV and Western Rifle weapons, but it was all a drop in the Sea of ​​Soviet Heritage. Even Ukrainian developments-and they had the Soviet past: for example, the PTRC "Stugna-P", which showed itself perfectly in battles. Now 2023 of the Armed Forces was met with a large list not only of Western weapons, but also their new samples in particular.

The western approach to the creation of weapons is radically different from the Soviet (and today - Russian) approach. It is quality orientation, human factor (military ergonomics, for example), accuracy of systems and more.

With old Soviet weapons, it is impossible to implement many concepts of Western military arts - such as command decentralization, commanders' autonomy, rapid closure of cycles (time from detecting target and its elimination) and synergy of various troops in a single network military mechanism. This is the third factor in the dramatic progressive growth of the Armed Forces for 2022.

Western samples of technology are not artificial specimens, but a massive quality strengthening of the Ukrainian army. To take at least all sorts of armored machines (all types and models), they have been transferred to the Ukrainian army for more than 2000 pieces. This is a great help. And there are hundreds of units of artillery, ZRK (the best in their class) and other weapons - up to the light shooting.