Posted on 06/09/2022 7:31:51 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin has lost two more colonels in Ukraine - including one of Russia's youngest to reach such a high rank - as a video showed a Russian battalion being hit with artillery fire while attempting to rescue a casualty.
Elsewhere, in another blow to the Kremlin's war efforts, a separate video released this week showed Ukrainian bombs destroying a Russian ammo depo in a huge ball of flames. Images released by Kyiv also appeared to show a destroyed Russian unit.
These are the latest examples of Ukraine's forces putting up a fierce resistance against Putin's invading forces. Moscow expected to capture Kyiv within days of invading on February 24, but its forces have instead been drawn into a protracted conflict that has resulted in tens-of-thousands Russian military losses.
Lt-Col Vadim Gerasimov, aged only 36, a battalion from Leningrad region, was posthumously awarded a Hero of Russia - the country's highest honour - on Putin's orders. His widow was also expected to receive his posthumous Order of Courage.
His funeral was being held on Thursday in Russia's Leningrad region. A graduate of the prestigious Frunze military academy, he was the father of a daughter.
Details of his citation for the Hero of Russia award were not immediately available.
The second high-ranked officer whose death was revealed today is Colonel Ruslan Shirin, a brigade commander, who 'heroically died in battle'.
He was chief of staff of the 336th Separate Guards Marine Brigade, part of the Baltic Fleet. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage.
Reports of their deaths came as a video showed a Russian battalion being shelled by Ukrainian forces as they attempted rescue a casualty.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Daily Mail needs new sources. Ukraine is being clubbed like a harp seal in the 60’S. Does no good to cling to fantasies
. Ukrainian Minister of Defense Reznikov: “The weapons that have already arrived in Ukraine would be enough for a victorious resistance against any army in Europe, but not against the Russian Federation”
Well if the Daily Mail is correct this war is over. Russia has lost. Can we get our $40 billion back?
I think he is right in a sense. Ukraine lost more equipment by this time than probably half of the rest of Europe possesses. Insiders in their military are putting the combined KIA and MIA numbers at 110-115,000.
Another day, another ridiculous propaganda piece from the Daily Mail.
Oh my goodness!
How can Russia keep on losing this special military operation while losing a colonel a day and a general every other day?
At this rate of losing they will control the whole of Ukraine by next week :-)!
Bravest cannon fodder around.
Isn’t this area supposedly in 97% Russian control?
This is such a load of BS. This fiction is getting so over the top. Soon the Russian Army will have zero soldiers left! LOL!
Yes, except for the 10,000-15,000 surrounded Ukrainian Army troops with no air support, no transport and no way out.
But they have wonderful entrenchments, built over the last 8 years, since 2014.
The Russian Army has been driven back to Kamchatka.
That doesn’t sound good…
And according to the Daily Mail the Ukrainians are now on the outskirts of Moscow.
Merkel isn’t around to bail them out this time.
And yet Russia has seized Eastern Ukraine and reduced cities to rubble, what a way to lose.
Serves them right for invading places that are so hard to pronounce.
MarxistMaximist cannot face reality.
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