Posted on 06/25/2022 10:49:54 PM PDT by Mount Athos
A commander of an elite unit of Ukrainian marines has told Sky News the majority of his best trained troops have been injured or killed.
"My unit was 100% made up of professional soldiers who have a lot of experience. Now, 80% are incapacitated from serious injuries or death," he says.
In comments which will alarm those backing Ukraine in its four-month long war with Russia, he says he does not know how long his unit can sustain such losses.
Citing the number of people who have lost their lives in the defence of Severodonetsk, the governor of Luhansk, Sergey Haidai, says Ukrainians would begin to withdraw from the devastated city amid continuous Russian air and ground assaults.
"During active combat we have a lot of wounded and dead so new people replace them and new people are less prepared.
The numbers of dead and injured worry her. Iryna says there are plenty of Ukrainians willing to take their place but they lack the skills.
"They are not professional," she says. "They don't know what to do and they are really very scared."
Standing on the steps of simple wooden farmhouse near the frontline, Commander Oleksandr lists the number of soldiers he has lost over the past couple of months.
"Well, 26 dead," he says. "I think 40 have been injured, dozens of them seriously. That's what it is like here."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Disgusting to keep this slaughter going.
“Citing the number of people who have lost their lives in the defence of Severodonetsk, the governor of Luhansk, Sergey Haidai, says Ukrainians would begin to withdraw from the devastated city amid continuous Russian air and ground assaults.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZLlm-icVrk
Delta7 posted this video yesterday. So upsetting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_60oKri-_e0
From an Ukrainian site:
“Ukraine is making a strategic retreat in the Donbass,” writes The World Street Journal.
The strategic retreat from Severodonetsk, Zolote and Gorsky could have been three weeks ago, but it turned out now that the best units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were deliberately ruined for the “picture”. Now, with casualties and captured servicemen already caught on video, this retreat looks rather forced and belated, and the lost units weaken the Ukrainian army. You can’t bring people back, and no one understands what we were given these two weeks in the Severodonetsk industrial complex, we were all convinced that this was symbolism. In reality, there was a simple manipulation with the slogans of saving our people on the Azot, which led to the fact that a group of 8,000 people and 700 pieces of equipment were surrounded.
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Sounds like they are cannon fodder. Sad.
RT @RT_com Russia state-affiliated media
Dozens of foreign fighters killed in Donbass strike – Russia
Moscow says the troops were stationed inside a zinc factory
11:30 PM · Jun 25, 2022
1.) Ret. Army Col. Douglas MacGregor says Russia has already won its war with Ukraine
6/23/22
https://www.shtf.news/2022-06-23-army-colonel-russia-already-won-over-ukraine.html
2.) Ukraine suffering up to 1,000 casualties per day in Donbas, MP says (6/16/22)
3.) They’re Wiping Us From Earth’: Evading Russian Artillery With a Ukrainian Military Unit (6/12/22)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ukrainian-military-unit-russia-artillery-1365021/
4.) Ukraine is running out of ammunition as prospects dim on the battlefield (6/12/22)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/10/ukraine-ammunition-donbas-russia/
5.) The Jimmy Dore Show, 6/11/22
Ukraine Should Admit Defeat NOW! Says Top U.S Military Leader
6.) Cases of desertion are growing among Ukrainian forces suffering significant losses in Russia’s artillery onslaught, report says (6/11/22)
7.) Ukraine forces outgunned up to 40 to one by Russian forces, intelligence report reveals (6/9/22)
https://news.yahoo.com/intelligence-report-reveals-ukraine-forces-174236886.html?fr=sycsrp_catchallv
Reality check for the indoctrinated...
Ukrainian soldier complaining that locals “on Ukrainian territory” are not very happy to see AFU soldiers and put up Zs instead. He’s sarcastic about “fighting for them” & is worried about locals giving up AFU positions to the Russians.
VIDEO: “So guys that’s what you get for fighting for your f__king people. You walk on Ukrainian territory and here people you know what they’re telling you? Here (He points to a wall with grafitti covered with Zs.) Z f__k, f__king Z.
And they are waiting (for the Russians) And they are supporting them. And they are waiting. That’s what we get, F__k. You don’t know what else. They would f__king flip on you.
This is what “demilitarization” looks like, driven by the US State Department.
Sounds like Ukraine is wearing down. Probably Russia’s strategy. Minimal infrastructure damage with maximal soldier casualties.
“The strategic retreat from Severodonetsk, Zolote and Gorsky could have been three weeks ago“
Yep, and if they had. competent military minded men at the top they would have retreated weeks ago, in order, and taken all their men and material with them.
The whole “lions led by donkeys” quote keeps coming to mind.
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