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A Conversation with Ukraine's Special Operations Commander

War on the Rocks

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The Role of Special Operations Forces in This War

The role of Special Operations Forces in this war is difficult to overestimate. We performed the role of autonomous groups which we developed, small autonomous groups which can be dispatched to different places,. And they can work in a distance from main forces so they do not carry a lot of logistics. So it depends on their personal training and that's how we employ such groups. But our advantage is that we know the landscape, we know that this is our land and we know why we are protecting and defending it.

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