Posted on 06/16/2024 5:57:51 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
The video appeared to confirm recent reports that dozens of Russian soldiers had been surrendering around Vovchansk, where heavy fighting has raged since Moscow launched a cross-border offensive towards Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, last month.
The POWs were later filmed and interviewed, sitting in what appeared to be a school classroom.
Several of the captured soldiers said they had been forced into the Russian army due to financial or legal trouble. Some said they had received as little as one week of training before being sent to the front.
Food and water were limited, and often, they had to buy supplies with their own money.
Almost all the prisoners said their units had suffered severe losses during attacks against Ukrainian positions.
"We received an order to attack positions inside a chemical factory. I don't know, maybe there were 70 of us. We drove there at night," one POW said.
"The drones came out of nowhere and wiped almost everyone out. Most of us were hit. Only seven of us survived and we were wounded. Then we were taken prisoner," he said.
Another soldier said he had been taken prisoner after being the "only survivor" in his unit.
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“Ukraine says”
LOL! Thanks for the laugh!
Bull ****. Yahoo says... Ukraine is getting it’s clock cleaned. It’s not even close. Sad to see western propaganda try to build false hope. It is a good education about how well you can trust the western media. Interesting that British media seems to lead. Either way. Watch out!
Russia is on track to have a million casualties by the end of the year. Russia is winning... what exactly? Some coal fields in Eastern Ukraine?
Russia is kicking ass in Ukraine, but, it’s also getting its ass kicked.
But, who’s doing the counting for Ukraine, when they have to round off the number to 70+. Can’t they count beyond 70 or below 70? It’s not that hard to get the exact number, if they’re all there to count. A simple calculator can help, it needed.
Now do Ukraine’s losses. Oh wait, Zelenskyy refuses to release those numbers. So all we have are guesses, based on a complicit media that is dedicated to propping up the notion that Ukraine is winning against Russian forces. The lack of transparency should give pause to anyone with an IQ above 100.
Go find “Military Summary” or “Weeb Union” on youtube. They give actual updates on the conflict situation. Pull your head out of the western media’s asses. Russia is also sitting on a million plus reserve that they rotate in and out. This is comparable to the US fighting Panama. The shit ain’t going to happen.
Russia is a country with a population half the size of the United States and... its population is much older than ours. Losing a million young people is a big deal. The country won’t easily recover from that. And if they have so many reserves why are they rounding up men in night clubs to send to the front?
Who is that, and what is the evidence?
Wow, I just looked him up, what a sleazy character.
“Disbarred for making a series of outlandish assertions - including the claim that he had been kidnapped and blackmailed by one of Britain’s most senior judges - former barrister Alexander Mercouris’ credibility had surely hit rock bottom.
Indeed the Bar Standards Board described his behaviour as “unhelpful and profoundly dishonest”.
Within a few years however Mr Mercouris had managed to reinvent himself, using his powers of persuasion to become a commentator on world affairs for Russian TV news outlets and websites.
He is regularly interviewed by the pro-Putin news channel RT, which is funded by the Russian government”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/21/past-comes-back-to-haunt-struck-off-barrister-turned-russia-comm/
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A little lengthy.
This guy, right? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/30/disgraced-barrister-turned-pro-putin-commentator-investigated/
Meh
You’re still here, Hans?
We’ve been hearing a lot about the typical age of Ukrainian soldiers, but, geez, how old are THESE guys?
Ukraine’s losses. Oh wait, Zelenskyy refuses to release those numbers.
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He did release a number a few months ago of 31,000 dead. Which would put casualties at some 90,000.
Whether you believe the number or not, is up to you.
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