Pics and vids are just now coming out, but they are gruesome, to say the least.
"Many trucks left, and only a few arrived,” said one soldier, who offered only his rank (sergeant) and his given name (Volodomyr) as he knelt on the sidewalk smoking. “A third of us made it, at most,” the soldier said.
Others said that a majority, at least, of the soldiers who set off from the town in a column of about 100 trucks had managed to escape the encirclement, many of them straggling out on foot after their vehicles were blown up."
The Russian onslaught and mass-murder continues under “cease-fire”... nothing ever changes. Russians have always been barbarians.
Do you always blame the murdered instead of the murderers?
It sounds like a Ukrainian Dunkirk, except with more serious losses.
Separatists my rear end. Many threads here show that regular Russian army troops using modern equipment are doing the killing.
The Russians seem to have created a successful new strategy — agree to a ceasefire and then concentrate their forces in one small enemy area and annihilate it.
As long as the global media keeps reporting that the ceasefire has been holding except for maybe a minor infraction or two, as it’s been reporting until this very moment, Russia has nothing to lose by pressing forward.
This is the same global media, of course, that excoriated Israel during last summer’s Gaza War when it tried to defend itself against thousands of air attacks from Hamas. Yet here is Russia, the aggressor, under no danger to its own people, being honored by newspapers everywhere for keeping the recent truce when it really wasn’t.
And does anyone doubt that the global media will continue to look the other way as Ukraine continues to collapse, one ceasefire after another which Russia will continue to strategically renege on?