Posted on 08/28/2014 10:57:01 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
MOSCOW (Reuters) - More than 100 Russian soldiers were killed in eastern Ukraine in a battle this month while helping pro-Russian separatists fight Ukrainian troops, two members of the Russian presidential human rights council said on Thursday, citing accounts of eye-witness and relatives of the dead.
Ella Polyakova and Sergei Krivenko, both members of the council, said around 300 people were also injured in the violence on Aug. 13 near the town of Snizhnye in Donetsk Province, when a column of trucks full of ammunition they were driving was hit by a sustained volley of Grad missiles.
"A column of Russian soldiers was attacked by Grad rockets and more 100 people died. It all happened in the city of Snizhnye in Donetsk Province," said Krivenko speaking by telephone. Polyakova said she had also been given the same figure, of more than 100, for the number of Russian soldiers killed in the attack.
Talk softly and carry a limp stick.
every country at the UN is saying the right things, but we all know nothing will come from this.
But the world can’t pretend not to know what is happening.
It is good to see, at least, that nobody buys Russia’s tales.
Well, don’t be too hasty. I’m seeing some folks who don’t believe it right now.
“12,000+ dead, 19,000 wounded, and around 4,000 missing, most of which are most assuredly dead, in his words.”
So 35k out of 30k troops taking part in ATO were killed ? Russians...
Look, if there’s no invasion force, I certainly won’t be the only one fooled. It seems it’s a pretty well established and recognized fact now.
Is it your take that everyone who is reporting two large thank incursions into the Ukraine are creating a total fabrication?
oh that can’t be true because after all so many have said that ‘Russia’ wouldn’t ever have soldiers there/s
Wolverines?
Why are any Russians in Ukraine at all? After Ukraine kills 30 Million or so of the mentally retarded Russian thugs, then it might be time for some international concern. Not until.
Talk is cheap - show us the pics.
My take is every one sees what they want to see.
Russians were not very good soldiers
Tell you what. If the Ukraine is not being invaded right now, I’d be happy to have been wrong.
The UK army was 88,000 when this began. Add in the National Guard, conscription, and the Oligarch Warlord militias, and the number goes much higher.
Don’t be daft.
“The UK army was 88,000 when this began.”
So now it must be 53,000 :)))
“But the world cant pretend not to know what is happening.”
Sure they can....
As long as Russia continues with the “Volunteers” meme, Obama and Europe can still play along with the fiction. And Putin knows that this is already proven.
Kiev has been its own worst enemy in this whole ordeal, as much as the rebels have.
The situation we’re in right now, it’s almost impossible to tell what is going on. We can’t trust the Ukraine fully, Russia, or our own public officials. NATO seems to believe there is an invasion taking place. The Ukrainian government does. Our government does. Russia denies it, but then some Russian forces state there are 3 to 4,000 Russian troops in the Ukraine. Then it is said they are either former military, or military on leave.
That’s a tacit admission from the same side that says it isn’t happening.
Nearly everyone agrees that if Russia weren’t pushing this, there would be very little going in inside the Ukraine.
Talk is cheap - show us the pics
Exactly! Where are the war correspondents?
Nobody is buying the “volunteers” meme
Keep the bodies. Then let Putin ask for them back.
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