@ndume mutaambiaje watu :D:D:D
What do you say to tens of thousands of women who haven’t communicated with their husbands and sons for weeks?
Looks like Russian propaganda has found its way to The Washington Post
Let me pick some juicy parts, the rest you can read for yourself while crying uncontrollably
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/26/ukraine-frontline-russia-military-severodonetsk/
@Akon City II kuja tusome
[SIZE=7]Ukrainian volunteer fighters in the east feel abandoned[/SIZE]
DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine — Stuck in their trenches, the Ukrainian volunteers lived off a potato per day as Russian forces pounded them with artillery and Grad rockets on a key eastern front line. Outnumbered, untrained and clutching only light weapons, the men prayed for the barrage to end — and for their own tanks to stop targeting the Russians.
“They [Russians] already know where we are, and when the Ukrainian tank shoots from our side it gives away our position,” said Serhi Lapko, their company commander, recalling the recent battle. “And they start firing back with everything — Grads, mortars.
“And you just pray to survive.”
Ukrainian leaders have projected and nurtured a public image of military invulnerability.
But the experience of Lapko and his group of volunteers offers a rare and more realistic portrait of the conflict and Ukraine’s struggle to halt the Russian advance in parts of Donbas. Ukraine, like Russia, has provided scant information about deaths, injuries or losses of military equipment. But after three months of war, this company of 120 men is down to 54 because of deaths, injuries and desertions.
When they could take it no longer, Lapko and his top lieutenant, Vitaliy Khrus, retreated with members of their company this week to a hotel away from the front. There, both men spoke to The Washington Post on the record, knowing they could face a court-martial and time in military prison.
But Lapko and Khrus’s concerns were echoed recently by a platoon of the 115th Brigade 3rd Battalion, based nearby in the besieged city of Severodonetsk. In a video uploaded to Telegram on May 24, and confirmed as authentic by an aide to Haidai, volunteers said they will no longer fight because they lacked proper weapons, rear support and military leadership.
“We are being sent to certain death,” said a volunteer, reading from a prepared script, adding that a similar video was filmed by members of the 115th Brigade 1st Battalion. “We are not alone like this, we are many.”
Hours after The Post interviewed Lapko and Khrus, members of Ukraine’s military security service arrived at their hotel and detained some of their men, accusing them of desertion.
The men contend that they were the ones who were deserted.
“When we were coming here, we were told that we were going to be in the third line on defense,” Lapko said. “Instead, we came to the zero line, the front line. We didn’t know where we were going.”
It’s a miracle the Russians haven’t pushed through their defensive line in Toshkivka, Khrus said as Lapko nodded. Besides their rifles and hand grenades, the only weapons they were given were a handful of rocket-propelled grenades to counter the well-equipped Russian forces. And no one showed Lapko’s men how to use the RPGs.
The casualties here are largely kept secret to protect morale among troops and the general public.
“On Ukrainian TV we see that there are no losses,” Lapko said. “There’s no truth.”
@ndume I thought the Russians ran out of ammunition two months ago…what’s this I’m reading on the clearly pro-Ukraine Washington Post? I’m confused, who’s telling the truth?
Kwanza hii mnyama inaacha nyama choma kila mahali. Ukrainians wakiskia imefika area wanaanza kunyamba na kuomba their last prayers.
Inaitwa TOS-1A Heavy flamethrower. Hizo bombs zinalipuka kwa hewa alafu zinanyesha moto huko chini. Ikilipuka juu yako there’s absolutely no chance of surviving. Zero. Nyet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q91yFP9E9Yg
@ndume I told you in the coming weeks hundreds of Ukrainians are going to desert/surrender daily. The propaganda no longer works. By now they know the Russians are more professional than their own Ukrainian leaders. They know that if they surrender the Russians won’t kill or torture them like they were led to believe.
Again @ndume, mtaambiaje watu?
