Is that like the Vaunted Republican guard that the media informed would be such a challenge to overcome in our Iraq ventures?
Wagner Group is one, but there are more terror and cleansing units within the Russian National Guard and Spetsnaz
Zelensky has imprisoned opposition leaders, shutdown or suspended all opposition parities and shutdown media outlets he doesn't care for. Nothing about Ukraine resembles a free country or democracy.
Woe to those that call good evil and evil good.
Nyuk nyuk nyuk - all those dead Russkis, and no dead Ukrainians!!
How many mercenaries does Wagner have to lose before it goes out of business?
Consider the source.
May I presume this story has your approval?
Do the Russians have the aim of Imperial Stormtroopers while the Ukrainian army is made up of nothing but the deadliest snipers to inhabit the planet?
What do you expect when you’re trying to invade with frequently broken down equipment? And tanks that are sitting ducks?
Strange, you would think this would be news hitting every news outlet across the world, yet I only see this in the Daily Mail rag.
Update
Summary:
Key area: Izyum bridgehead. Russian troops are mopping up corner between Oskil and Siverskiy Donets rivers controlled by Ukrainian side before. Town of Kreminna captured by Russians.
New focus area will be Donbass, Izyum, Mariupol, Kherson.
1. Kharkiv: positional fighting, heavy shelling by Russian troops.
2. Izyum bridgehead: Russian 4TD and 3 mechanized division expanded bridgehead in the west to village of Andriyivka and in the south to village of Dovgenke - both villages are in Russian control. It is extremely dangerous penetration by Russian troops that potentially could lead to large pocket for Ukrainian troops west of Donetsk. New reinforcement on the bridgehead - 106 Airborne Division. There are no signs of 6TB/47TD that originally captured bridgehead. Russian 21 brigade now fights on the bridgehead as well, parts of 144ID are being pulled there as well. No expansion of bridgehead over these days.
3. Russian attacks on Popasna, Rubizhne and Severodonetsk, fighting on outskirts of towns. Russian troops captured majority of Rubizhne. Popasna is about 80% captured by Russian troops, town center is controlled by Russian side, they control center of the town. Russian mercenaries - Wagner Group operates in Popasna.
4. West of Donetsk: Avidyivka and Maryinka - very active shelling with Russian artillery of all calibers including 203 mm guns. Maryinka is only 25% captured by Russian troops. Ukrainian side claims recapture of all of Maryinka, but we don’t have supporting evidence.
5. Vugledar is in Ukrainian hands. Dangerous Russian attack on village of Velyka Novosilka to the east of Vugledar.
6. Mariupol: continuous fighting, heavy shelling by Russian troops using 240-mm mortars, MLRS, FAB-3000/5000 bombs, Russian troops captured all of the sea port. Small underground town under Azovstal - 11 sq km, 6 layers, 3 m sick (thick) concrete between layers.
7. There is large gap between Volnovakha and Zaporizhya thinly defended by Ukrainian forces, Russian forces don’t have enough resources to exploit it. Ukrainian strongholds are towns of Gulyaypole and Orikhiv. Russian 19D is operating there.
8. Mykolayiv: positional fighting, shelling. 14th brigade arrived to the region. Russian troops also received reinforcement - part of 201 military camp - we estimate it’s a brigade size subunit.
In other news, 7 of Wagner’s Valkyries were also killed in Ukraine.
LOL, DailyMail.
For every one killed, I’d generally expect some more to have been injured.
There was a pretty substantial cull among elite Russian units during the initial phases of the war, and they will be cutting deeper this time around.
I’d expect to see combat effectiveness declines begin to manifest.
The Ukrainians will experience that too, but they seem to have a deeper bench with a bit more of a graceful decline in skill levels among their replacements, having activated a Reserve Force that had Military service over the last several years, and having a more developed NCO Corps. The Russians seem to have a very sharp drop off in skill between their front line contract soldiers, and the kind of individual replacements that they are mustering.
Skilled and motivated personnel are the Achilles heel of the Russian forces.
More Daily Mail I see.
Oh please.
It’s war. Everyone is there that isn’t supposed to be there.
The neo nazi’s, the real nazi’s, the Soros funded goons, the CIA and their
goons, the bio-weapons scientists working for all sides, including the ones
with the Biden Family fingerprints all over them, (just to name a few) all giving
Putin more pretext than he could possibly wish for, to do whatever he wants.
(and then there’s the really dark trafficking stuff...)
Or do some here still not get it?
~Easy
Don’t you have anything better to do than post propaganda from this trashy rag? Do they work weekends and do windows?
“Oh we cannot hold Putin accountable for his thuggish brutality and criminal behavior. Society (the Civilized World) force him to be a thug and a criminal. We have to appease his rage by allowing him to be a thug without any consequences”.
“....were thought to have been killed...”
About as likely CDC claiming to have health professionals.