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14/ The soldiers were given supplies only for the envisaged three-day campaign. When they found it was going to take much longer, they had to improvise – which meant looting from the Ukrainian villages they were occupying.
30/ Filatyev blames widespread corruption and a system of photo reports, which enables commanders to hide problems, for this situation. He suggests that as few as 100,000 Russian troops may have invaded Ukraine in February (despite paper numbers of at least 200,000).
14/ The soldiers were given supplies only for the envisaged three-day campaign. When they found it was going to take much longer, they had to improvise – which meant looting from the Ukrainian villages they were occupying.
Poland good now?
18/ Frolkin's unit eventually reached Makariv, about 35 km west of Kyiv's city limits. They stayed in the Kyiv region from 24 February to 1 April. The Russians started taking heavy losses almost immediately after entering Ukraine.
19/ "On 1 March we were already in Makariv. So, we arrived at night and the brigade commander was forming up columns on the road. We started to dig trenches. So, I jumped out of the armoured vehicle, took a spade and started digging."
20/ "I think I had reached the depth of exactly 2 [spade] blades, when we heard 2 distant slaps. We had no clue what that was, and [then] those s s started falling on us. We ran and saw a guy without a leg, so we applied a tourniquet, and saw a second guy without a leg."
21/ "He died while we were carrying him. So, you run in total panic. Where to run? There’s nowhere to run. That was the first time that I felt that one can die very easily in that land."
22/ The following day, Frolkin and his colleagues found a soldier walking by himself "in black shabby and greasy clothes", armed with an assault rifle. He turned out to be a tank commander who was one of a handful of survivors of his unit.
23/ "1½ tanks were left out of 12. The rest had burned or broken down. So, they were defeated utterly. He said he was burning inside the tank. Almost the entire crew was dead. He was lucky the hatch was open. He was blown out through it, so he survived."
24/ According to a combat diary later found in Andriivka, "The company was in the village of Andriivka, vehicles and infantry defended themselves in the trenches and in the yards of certain houses, after which mortar fire was carried out."25/ Frolkin never saw a Ukrainian soldier. Instead, he says, the Russians fought mainly with artillery. "As [the Russian artillery] start s ing a village, no one knows how many civilians are there or where they are. They just wouldn’t tell us any news.
26/ "They only tell us about our direction, like: 'We’re pushing them, we’re so cool!' And it’s not clear who we’re fighting against. And they wouldn’t tell us anything about other [fronts], or about civilian casualties."
27/ Probably due to the mounting casualties they were sustaining, Frolkin's unit was moved out of Makariv. "We were supposed to stay in Makariv, but we were taken to a recovery detachment, so we moved to Andriivka."
28/ While in the village, they took over a Ukrainian family's house. The owner says that he, his wife and his 95-year-old father-in-law were ordered to leave the house on 13 March. It's not clear whether Frolkin was involved in the eviction.
29/ Frolkin says his unit engaged in looting, some of it due to food supplies being interrupted: "We went to basements where we saw that people don’t live in the house. We enter a basement, and there is potato, pickles, stuff like that. So, we took it and cooked for ourselves."
30/ The looting was widespread and systematic. "Our logistics officer used to steal fridges from shops and stuff like that. Also, they found warehouses with sneakers and various clothing, which was also all taken away. They carried it in trucks."
31/ "I saw 2 such trucks arriving in Belarus. Huge trucks arrived, were loaded, and carried it away. Before that, they were like roaches, carrying these bags, these cloth bundles ... You just look at a guy and he is so little and he pulls a bicycle, carrying these bags.
No one is reading that
32/ "I don’t know how much of it they wanted to take. The cars and everything that was looted... Why would you need this car? You have neither licence nor le to it. And driving it is risky, too, because there’s constant mortar s ing."
33/ The looting was not only done by low-ranking soldiers. iStories reports that according to another source, deputy commander for logistics Colonel Vyacheslav Klobukov stole a dinnerware set from a home in Andriivka "so that the commanders could eat from nice dishes."
34/ One soldier serving with the brigade says that on one occasion "an entire KUNG [closed-body van on a truck chassis] was stuffed with refrigerators, laptops and even tables and chairs stolen from locals."
35/ The loot was likely shipped back to Russia via Belarus. In some cases, fridges looted in Ukraine seem to have been given to the widows of dead Russian soldiers, likely given by their husbands' units as a form of compensation.
36/ The soldiers' already poor discipline got worse as they realised they would be staying in Andriivka for some time. Casualties mounted, with their commanders staying in safe bunkers while the ordinary soldiers were attrited by Ukrainian attacks. They began to drink heavily.
37/ The drunken soldiers became a menace to those around them, including the unfortunate villagers, but also became vulnerable to Ukrainian partisans. One soldier was so drunk his colleagues could not wake him up. The next morning he was found shot dead.
38/ "The street where he was found was not controlled by either our fighters or anyone. And we could see Ukrainian positions in the neighboring village. So, they could cross that field to that street just as easily."
(Shrugs) maybe, maybe not. Someone might find it interesting.No one is reading that
You probably don't care about hte looting, torture, murder or rape going on there, that much I am sure about.
At least structure it with paragraphs you lazy beep boop.
guy who has been suspended by twitter multiple times for bot-like behavior calling other people beep boop is the most transparent projection aroundAt least structure it with paragraphs you lazy beep boop.
Yeah I brought it up. Then u stepped in
ya hate to see it
You said we didnt miss anything i cluding the fact that the whole story was a hoax
You stepped in taco sauced nig
I didn't say one thing about the story that you keep trying to push... quote meYou said we didnt miss anything i cluding the fact that the whole story was a hoax
Still batting .000 in this thread a full six months laterYou stepped in taco sauced nig
There was an ELECTION that decided who would run Ukraine. It was the chocolate guy on top.Town idiot doesnt know about the Maidan Coup
The fact that the Russian puppet ran is another event that happened before the election.
You said we didnt miss anything i cluding the fact that the whole story was a hoax
You stepped in taco sauced nig
Random Guess still celebrating each successful attack as a sign of victory in the war.
Any port in a storm I guess.
More random reports with nary a tie to victory for Ukraine, and totally ignoring the 65 billion in aid the US has sent to help the leader who cried out and bent the knee.30/ Filatyev blames widespread corruption and a system of photo reports, which enables commanders to hide problems, for this situation. He suggests that as few as 100,000 Russian troops may have invaded Ukraine in February (despite paper numbers of at least 200,000).
Yup, military might on par with China and US.
Putin Orders Russia to Recruit 137,000 More Troops as War Drags
Presidential decree to bring troop total to 1.15 million
Kremlin seen building forces following casualties in Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin ordered his army to boost its troop total by 137,000 to 1.15 million, the highest level in more than a decade, as Russia digs in for its war against Ukrainian forces backed by the US and its allies.
Putin’s brief decree, published on the Kremlin’s website, didn’t explain the motivation for the increase or where the new recruits would come from. Russia has turned to private military contractors, local “volunteers” and recruits from among prison inmates to replenish the losses it has suffered in six months since it invaded. So far, the Kremlin has avoided a mass mobilization or even an official declaration of war, seeking to limit the domestic fallout from the campaign.
But as its advances have stalled in recent weeks in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance and growing supplies of sophisticated US and European weapons, Russia’s military is under growing pressure to deliver on the Kremlin’s promised goals.
“Ukraine has shown that there are wars that you need bigger conventional forces to win because you can’t use nuclear weapons,” said Vasily Kashin, a Russian military expert at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. “If Russia had had 400,000 or more ground troops in February instead of the 280,000 it did, the outcome would have been very different by now.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...s-as-war-drags
tank runs over a mine in the most stupid way to run over a mine possible = attack.
Got it.
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