Sputnik News
December 21, 2022
By Ilya Tsukanov
Russian officials and some Western media and pundits have characterized the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war between the West and Russia. The US and its allies have poured tens of billions of dollars’ worth of military aid into Ukraine, trained tens of thousands of troops, and provided Kiev with intelligence and strategic level planning support.
The military potential of almost all NATO countries is being actively used against Russia, and Moscow must improve its knowledge and understanding of the Western bloc’s weapons systems, experience and tactics to improve the fighting potential of the Russian military, President Vladimir Putin has said.