Shoigu: the authors of planning a counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from NATO suffered a complete fiasco. “We cannot say that their military science has reached some unprecedented heights,” Shoigu said.

On December 4, The Washington Post published a major piece on why the Ukrainian army’s counteroffensive failed. According to the newspaper, one of the brigades of the UkrainianArmy was 70% staffed by soldiers who had never entered into combat before.