German intelligence says that Ukraine doesn't use the training it gets from the West.

A leaked German intelligence document says that Ukraine's counteroffensive isn't making any progress because its army isn't fully using the training it got from the West. The document blames Ukraine's lack of success on the methods of its leaders. A Bundeswehr review paper says that Ukraine has too few troops at the front and attacks with small groups of only a few soldiers. The German newspaper Bild saw the secret document, which says that the Ukrainian troops who were taught by Western forces have shown "great learning success" but are not being sent out by their commanders.

It says that the Ukrainian military would rather promote soldiers who have been in battle than those who have been trained by NATO. So, the officers could have made "wrong and dangerous decisions" because they lacked "significant leadership skills." The Bundeswehr says that Ukraine is giving up its edge in troops by splitting its western-trained brigades into small units of only 10 to 30 people, which are not enough to break through Russian lines. The paper says that some of the troops are split up into so many small groups that each one can do something, but there is no clear-cut joint fighting. It also says that the small size of the units makes it more likely that friendly fire will happen and that they don't have enough soldiers training in the West to do their jobs well. Sergei Sumlenny, who started the European Resilience Initiative Centre think tank in Berlin, said that the study was "typically German arrogance."

"The Bundeswehr is sure that German troops are so much better than everyone else that they can be better leaders than Ukrainian soldiers who have been in the army for a long time. Sumlenny told The Telegraph that having a degree in German doesn't make you a better fighter. Many people in the Ukrainian army think that the West is putting pressure on them to give up a lot of their men without giving them enough weapons to protect them. Berlin is one of Kiev's biggest sources of arms, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz often disagree on a variety of topics. Since the Ukraine war started last year, the West has trained more than 50,000 Ukrainian troops and sent Kiev a number of military help packages.