Posted on 09/07/2022 9:28:15 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
SOUTHERN UKRAINE — In dimly lit hospital rooms in southern Ukraine, soldiers with severed limbs, shrapnel wounds, mangled hands and shattered joints recounted the lopsided disadvantages their units faced in the early days of a new offensive to expel Russian forces from the strategic city of Kherson.
The soldiers said they lacked the artillery needed to dislodge Russia’s entrenched forces and described a yawning technology gap with their better-equipped adversaries. The interviews provided some of the first direct accounts of a push to retake captured territory that is so sensitive, Ukrainian military commanders have barred reporters from visiting the front lines.
“They used everything on us,” said Denys, a 33-year-old Ukrainian soldier whose unit fell back from a Russian-held village after a lengthy barrage of cluster bombs, phosphorous munitions and mortars. “Who can survive an attack for five hours like that?” he said.
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Yes, from their positions in bunkers, not from the front.
The Russians aren't talking about them at all, they just acknowledge some low rank captures that aren't politically important.
The Russian army will roll up 90% of this stupidity with artillery, mortars and rockets and the rest with tanks. If NATO doesn’t finally take the hint after this debacle, they deserve what’s coming this winter. Let’s see if societal collapse can cure them if their Russia rabies.
That does not mean much coming from a WEF Forever War maggot.
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