Kiev’s troops complain of pointless frontal assaults, blocked retreats, and overbearing bureaucracy, according to the report Ukraine’s army has slipped into a rigid, Soviet-style command culture marked by the suppression of any initiative on the battlefield, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday, citing soldiers who say they are sent on futile frontal assaults and denied tactical withdrawals. Ukrainian service members told the paper that while in the early stages of the conflict