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How battle-hardened are the Ukraine troops?
I will try and find the link but read a thread yesterday on how Ukraine has been developing its forces since 2014, one of the points was it has been deploying 60,000 (drafted) troops to the Donbass on 12 month tours, so has cycled 400,000 men through active duty who now form the core of the National Defence Force they have called up, so not totally green
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It's only been couple of days. How long were Russia involved in Syria, Afghanistan?
How battle-hardened are the Ukraine troops? Give it a couple of months, and a lot more deaths, and see how morale is.