Comments by "R Johansen" (@rjohansen9486) on "Putin's Strategy To Hunt Kyiv's Western Missile Arsenal Works; Ukrainian Pilots 'Forced To Run'" video.

  1.  @flamintasty  Geneva Solutions: Mothers will produce more sons’: Russia’s long history of sacrificing soldiers. Poorly prepared operations, frontal attacks, wounded soldiers left on the battlefield. During the first two months of the invasion of Ukraine, the Russians lost an estimated 21,000 members of its troops. The horrific figures do not faze the Russian leadership in any way. After all, that's how they have always fought. The Battle of Narva in 1700 was a terrible defeat for the Russian army against the Swedes in the Great Northern War. The battlefield was dotted with the bodies of the guards of Tsar Peter the Great. Dozens of Peter’s childhood friends, people he had grown up with, were killed. The story goes that seeing this carpet of corpses, Peter could not hold back tears. He was reassured by one of his closest associates. He put his hand on his shoulder and said: “Don't cry, my lord, Russian mothers will produce more sons.” Historical anecdote? It seems that every Russian war proves it to be true. Every war in Russia has been a bloody slaughter, including mass sacrifices of its own soldiers. In just one day in the Crimean War, the Russians lost up to 10,000 soldiers. The enemy? Two hundred. In the Soviet Union, killing their own people was taken to a new level. In the Soviet-Finnish war of 1940, there were eight Red Army soldiers killed per Finn. In the Second World War, this ratio only increased. Until the last day of the war, Soviet generals overwhelmed their opponents with the bodies of their soldiers. “Marshal Zhukov gave me a matter-of-fact statement of his practice, which was, roughly, ‘there are two kinds of mines; one is the personnel mine and the other is the vehicular mine. When we come to a minefield our infantry attacks exactly as if it were not there…” – Wartime memoirs Crusade to Europe by 34th US President Dwight D. Eisenhower Soviet Marshal Konev later admitted that during the storming of Berlin in 1945 he lost 150,000 killed. The real numbers exceeded 300,000 dead. In one battle. By comparison,  total US military losses during the whole war were 290,000. Now it is obvious that Russian generals honor the traditions of their ancestors. Every victory of theirs, as well as every defeat, is a bloody sacrifice. After all, the mindset of the Russian army has been unchanged for hundreds of years safe in the knowledge that “mothers will produce more sons”.
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  2.  @arundavid8231  The use of cluster munitions during the Russian invasion has been recorded by a number of eyewitnesses and journalists, as well as representatives of the UN, humanitarian and public organizations. In particular, the head of the UN Human Rights Council, Michelle Bachelet, reported on March 30 (2022) at least 24 cases since the beginning of the invasion. Russian armed forces have indiscriminately shelled and bombed populated areas, killing civilians and wrecking hospitals, schools and other civilian infrastructure, actions that may amount to war crimes. “What we saw in Government-controlled Kramatorsk on 8 April (2022) when cluster sub-munitions hit the railway station, killing 60 civilians and injuring 111 others, is emblematic of the failure to adhere to the principle of distinction, the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks and the principle of precaution enshrined in international humanitarian law,” Bachelet said As of July 1 2022, hundreds of attacks by Russian forces with cluster munitions have already been recorded in the settlements of the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions. 215 civilians are known to have been killed in these shellings and 474 injured, many of which may go unreported. Both Russia as well as Ukraine have used cluster munitions during the conflict, however, Russian use has been extensive while Ukrainian use has been more limited.
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