Ukraine's Army Is Now the Best in the World, Retired General Says
BY MATTHEW IMPELLI ON 3/23/23 AT 3:50 PM EDT
he Ukrainian army is currently the best in the world amid their ongoing war with Russia, Mick Ryan, a retired major general in the Australian army, said this week.
While speaking with the Kyiv Post on Thursday, Ryan talked about the different aspects of Ukraine's armed forces and how they've used a number of capabilities, like missile defenses, drone defenses and frontline combat troops, in their war against Russia.
"And my view is that the Ukrainians are probably the best army in the world at the moment," Ryan said. "And it's not probably, they are. They are the best army in the world. They're the most experienced at the modern warfare, they've demonstrated that over the last 13 months.
"Now they've shed a lot of blood and lost a lot of young men and women and older men and women, to be honest, to learn the many lessons they've learned, but they are the best army in the world. There is much that we can all learn from them."
Ryan told the Kyiv Post that there are several "elements" to the Ukrainian army.
"The territorial defense force, you've got the professional army which is made of the old soldiers and the newly mobilized soldiers," he said. "There appears to be a lot of independent units.
"You have foreign troops as well and bringing that all together is a pretty big challenge in an army that has expanded quickly. And even the very best generals would be challenged by that kind of undertaking and to do it during wartime even makes it harder."
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