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'Our Losses Were Gigantic': Life in a Sacrificial Russian Assault Wave
The New York Times ^ | February 13, 2023 | Andrew E. Kramer

Posted on 02/13/2023 9:12:27 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper

Creeping forward along a tree line late at night toward an entrenched Ukrainian position, the Russian soldier watched in horror as his comrades were mowed down by enemy fire.

His squad of 10 ex-convicts advanced only a few dozen yards before being decimated. “We were hit by machine-gun fire,” said the soldier, a private named Sergei.

One soldier was wounded and screamed, “Help me! Help me, please!,” the private said, although no help arrived. Eight soldiers were killed, one escaped back to Russian lines and Sergei was captured by Ukrainians.

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1 posted on 02/13/2023 9:12:27 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How is the annex? Plenty of plants I hope.


2 posted on 02/13/2023 9:17:51 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body... gives me more rights. )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Yeah, right.

So says the purveyor of everything slanted to the Left, the NY Times.


3 posted on 02/13/2023 9:18:45 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Putin sits in the Kremlin, sipping his imported champagne, while these poor bastards are out in the field, getting mowed down in a hail of bullets

life in a police-state dictatorship ...


4 posted on 02/13/2023 9:19:04 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The Russians will soon double their losses.


5 posted on 02/13/2023 9:34:53 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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BandarLog/license2lie ping


6 posted on 02/13/2023 9:36:39 PM PST by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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Ukrainian mortar round heading for a Russian position in Donetsk province

7 posted on 02/13/2023 10:18:45 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: canuck_conservative

Putin sits in the Kremlin, sipping his imported champagne, while these poor bastards are out in the field, getting mowed down in a hail of bullets


The Ivy-league know nothings sit with the politicians and lobbyists, sipping drinks, while these poor bastards are out in the field getting blown up by IED’s.

It’s really not much different is it? Neither the Russian nor the American victims had much investment in the war of elites.


8 posted on 02/13/2023 10:18:55 PM PST by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

What a stud! Pumping his biceps for the camera.
Must have had personal lessons in posing from Zzzelllinsskyyy himself.

PS That mortar “round” looks fake as hell.


9 posted on 02/13/2023 10:27:58 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

‘This isn’t Russian roulette, it’s like the suicide of lemmings’: Putin’s marine brigade of 5,000 men is all but destroyed in one of the most brutal battles since the start of the war
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11746903/Putins-marine-brigade-5-000-men-destroyed-brutal-battle.html

********** I feel bad for the dumb Roooooskies that Vlad is killing off. At his end, Hitler said the German people were not worthy of him.


10 posted on 02/13/2023 10:28:08 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Ukraine is winning the propaganda war. In your mind.


20 posted on 02/13/2023 10:59:13 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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