Comments by "Gary VAQ" (@stlouisix1) on "Zaluzhny, Maryinka retreat. Newsweek, game-changing F-16. EU Plan B, €20B debt to fund Ukraine" video.
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While Ukraine was carrying out these 90% phony psyops with some modest success, Russia has been goring the AFU on the actual battlefield. Not only were there several reports of operational strikes on manpower consolidations like the following:
But even the AFU themselves wrote of grievously painful losses. For instance, 108 Avdeevka ‘defenders’ were sent home for the holidays and their transport was struck by Russian precision weaponry, killing the entire group, as recounted by Ukrainian political scientists Vitaly Bala:
Imagine that, 108 men wiped out in a single blow. It almost inclines one to quickly forget about an empty ‘landing ship’.
He plainly states that they suffered more losses per day than they had previously suffered for entire months. That means to push Russian forces back those measly 1-2km behind the railroad tracks was costing them likely hundreds of lives per day, if not more—another example of Russian echeloned defense designed to systematically fall back while ‘leading’ the enemy through pre-set killboxes.
The same soldier even makes an astonishing claim about NATO’s top gear, particularly the Abrams. He says the Abrams is useless because its low-positioned filters clog up every few minutes in Ukrainian terrain, requiring constant cleaning in the middle of battle, lest the tank entirely shut down:
This segues us to the final section of battlefield updates. Russian forces have been making a lot of progress, finally officially capturing Marinka after nearly a decade. Even Zaluzhny confirmed the “full withdrawal” of AFU from Marinka during the press conference:
Another exasperated AFU soldier wonders why society continues to downplay Russians as second rate when the AFU is being so badly slaughtered by them each day: - Simplicius
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