What matters is that a NATO funded, equipped and trained force lost against convicts with shovels. Let that sink in Speedo๐คกโ๏ธ๐
Let this sink in JonJon - those were reservists using old equipment. You convict buddies died in the thousands along with even more mobnicks over an insignificant village far from home in a country they invaded.
Keep your track shoes handy, and be sure to stock up on anti-panic pills - you will be needing them very soon.
“a NATO funded, equipped and trained force lost against convicts with shovels.”
...with the most intense use of Artillery carpet bombing of an urban area since WWII, and the lions share of their Close Air Support sorties. So more than shovels actually - the full remaining might of the Russian military. And yet Russia struggled for 10 months with Ukraine’s 56th biggest city.
@ChuckPfarrer May 19
CRIMINAL WEAPON: @AlexKokcharov posts this video of RU employment of TOS-1 ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ฐ short-range MLRS to launch incendiary and thermobaric warheads against the city of Bakhmut. RU is the only nation known to use wide-dispersal incendiary weapons against urban targets.
https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1659691327645442048
P.S. The NATO equipped and trained units have not been committed to combat yet, but are prepared for the upcoming Spring/Summer counteroffensive. A follow-on wave of additional new NATO trained and equipped Brigades is now in the pipeline, for a Fall/Winter Operation (likely with NATO standard 4th Generation Fighter jets, like F-16s). Nations like the USA are now budgeting for significant increases in funding for the Ukrainian Military for next fiscal year.