A Ukrainian commander said new troops are trained so badly they have to learn basic skills on the front lines like shooting a gun

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• Front-line Ukrainian units getting new troops told the Post they have a massive training problem.

• They said commanders have to re-teach soldiers on the front basic skills like ******* their weapons.

• Some said Ukrainian training centers also don’t have bullets and grenades for new recruits.

Ukrainian soldiers say their reinforcements are arriving on the front lines without fundamental skills such as assembling rifles and ******* their weapons,

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The outlet spoke to commanders and newly deployed troops on the front, who said their units must re-train soldiers being sent from the rear.

The report, published Sunday, underscores concerns that have been voiced for months by Ukrainian units, who say they’re

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as the war drags on.

As Ukraine rotates men from rear posts to relieve its front-line fighters, some fresh arrivals aren’t meeting their commanders’ basic requirements, per the Post. Notably, these aren’t even the newly conscripted men Kyiv has been aggressively drafting in the last few months.

One officer of the

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, identified by his call sign Schmidt, told the Post that some of his new men didn’t know how to assemble or disassemble their rifles.

“We are just wasting a lot of time here on basic training,” said Schmidt, per The Post. He added that he required new arrivals to train in their first week by ******* about 1,500 bullets daily.

The 93rd Mechanized Brigade has seen some of the heaviest fighting in the war, including the battles for

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A Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunner of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade Kholodny Yar holds a cat from his position in the direction of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region in February.ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images

The Post reports that the new men in Schmidt’s unit will likely be deployed near the

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in Donetsk. One newly arrived soldier, identified by call sign Val of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, told the outlet he was assigned to the front line with a day’s notice.

Another soldier from the

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in Kharkiv told the outlet that “everything is learned on the spot.”

As for new recruits, Ukraine’s training centers are barely equipped to provide soldiers with basic training, per the Post.

One instructor told the outlet that some facilities don’t have enough *******-caliber bullets and only allow trainees to ****** about 20 rounds before training ends. The officer was not named because he did not have the authority to speak about his tenure at the facility.

“There are no grenades for throwing in training centers, and there are no grenade launcher rounds in the training center,” he told the Post.

“We don’t have a proper training system in place,” he added.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense press team did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours by Business Insider.

Why the world cares about Ukraine’s training

The West has been highly concerned about training for Ukraine’s troops. Kyiv recently started receiving a stalled tranche of US military equipment and weaponry, but

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As Ukraine

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in its military, member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — such as the

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and

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— have hinted at plans to officially

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in Ukraine to prepare the new waves of troops.

Russia and pro-Kremlin pundits have

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as an escalation by NATO that would cross a red line. Meanwhile, Moscow’s economy is on a

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, recruiting new troops rapidly and putting its defense manufacturing industry into overdrive.

Its ability to resupply the battlefield with troops and equipment has led some analysts to believe it can

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Meanwhile, Ukraine is struggling to both find and train new men to keep up with Russia, especially with its rear vulnerable to

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Without safe areas to conduct training, Kyiv may have little choice but to send personnel to NATO states — even more so when it comes to Ukrainian operators learning how to use new Western-supplied equipment.

The *** hosts trainings for Ukrainian troops under its Operation Interflex program.HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images

“There is a difficult tradeoff to make between pulling experienced soldiers from the frontline to train new personnel or accepting bottlenecks in training the new personnel,” the

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, a Washington-based think tank, wrote on Sunday.

The ISW added that the overall quality of Ukraine’s frontline troops will probably decrease as experienced fighters rotate out, but the newer soldiers will likely learn fast alongside veterans.

It also noted that the Post’s report of Ukrainian commanders training their troops on the frontline shows a difference in emphasis between Kyiv and Moscow’s forces, citing how Russian commanders were widely reported to send their

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