Johan Huovinen, who is a teacher at the Norwegian Defense Academy, says that the Ukrainian defense initially consisted of almost 600,000 men. Of these, around 250,000 people belonged to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and served in 21 different brigades. The other large part was made up of what is called the Territorial Defense Army, corresponding to the Swedish Home Guard.
In the context of growing military and political instability in the world, many states and governments are facing the problem of national security, sovereignty, and non-involvement in military conflicts. The invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine is probably a marker not only of the lack of effective solutions to the global problems of international competition, poverty, ecology, and inequality in access to resources and technologies but also of the overall gradual withering away of the existing international political architecture.
As of March 1, 2023, it can be stated that the big winter offensive of the Russian Federation did not take place.
In general, the second half of February may pass not only under the sign of fierce hostilities but also under the sign of the unfolding of new horizons of geopolitical confrontation.
This week arrived in Ukraine from USA auditors from three agencies - the State Department, the Pentagon, and the state agency USAID. They will analyze the use of American aid in Ukraine, including military aid. The Administration of US President D.
A new missile attack on January 14 by the Russian Federation significantly worsened the situation in the Ukrainian energy sector. Ukraine has already been subjected to 12 massive rocket attacks, in just 1 day three waves of rocket attacks were carried out, and arrivals were recorded in Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, and Lviv regions. For the first time since the beginning of the war, an attack on Kyiv occurred before the announcement of an air raid.
