That’s barbaric. In WWII, my dad landed on Omaha beach and detonated the mines so that the soldiers could come ashore. So they could live and get the war won. Because our soldiers’ lives matter.
Russia is one country I have been to that I don’t care to see again. Interesting, yes. Humane? Not as much.
“In all wars that Russia [and the Soviet Union] has ever fought, it relies entirely on the number of people,” Nazar says. “[Soviet Field Marshal Georgy] Zhukov said in World War II: ‘men’s deaths are not a problem, women will give birth to more of them’. That’s their viewpoint. A human for them is just a unit, a resource,” he says.
He attempts to have the opposite relationship with his soldiers.
“I’ve worked with American commanders and advisors,” Nazar says. “They have a great phrase: ‘do as I do’. It’s their motto, and I try to follow it as well.
“Russian commanders, on the other hand, they give orders and tasks to their soldiers without knowing how they will achieve them. Then they sit back while their troops fight, not caring how many of them will die or not. In order for your soldiers to trust you, they must see that you are not somewhere far away, but there at the forward positions with them. That’s the exact opposite of how Russian officers think,” he says.
Ukraine’s 63rd Brigade gears up for Kherson push
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