Posted on 02/18/2015 10:25:36 AM PST by tcrlaf
Pics and vids are just now coming out, but they are gruesome, to say the least.
"Many trucks left, and only a few arrived,” said one soldier, who offered only his rank (sergeant) and his given name (Volodomyr) as he knelt on the sidewalk smoking. “A third of us made it, at most,” the soldier said.
Others said that a majority, at least, of the soldiers who set off from the town in a column of about 100 trucks had managed to escape the encirclement, many of them straggling out on foot after their vehicles were blown up."
The Russian onslaught and mass-murder continues under “cease-fire”... nothing ever changes. Russians have always been barbarians.
Do you always blame the murdered instead of the murderers?
lol!
It sounds like a Ukrainian Dunkirk, except with more serious losses.
Tweets:
Gleb Bazov 58 min.
DEBALTSEVO -KievRus Battalion dep. commander: “NO ORDER from Ukraine command to retreat, NO PLANNED OPERATION.” Breakout - disaster.
Gleb Bazov 56 min.
DEBALTSEVO - KievRus dep. commander: “Everyone left to their own devices. There was no plan, only disorganization. Breakout group ravaged”
Steiner 47 min.
#NAF Basurin: At #Debaltsevo boiler 2-3 thousand enemies remain
Likely the two other surrounded groups that weren’t in Debaltseve itself.
A Poznan type situation. Every man for himself...
Like Napoleon’s glorious retreat out of Russia.
Russians are Nekulturny.
Sounds like what happened to the Red Army when the Germans surrounded them in massive pockets during the early phases of Barbarossa. Every man for himself.
Or his glorious retreat at Waterloo.
CNN admitting just now that the retreat from Debaltseve was a complete and bloody disaster.
Per Walsh the rebels collected “Many” tanks and Artillery pieces, and some of the latest missiles.
That’s horrible news.
Separatists my rear end. Many threads here show that regular Russian army troops using modern equipment are doing the killing.
The Russians seem to have created a successful new strategy — agree to a ceasefire and then concentrate their forces in one small enemy area and annihilate it.
As long as the global media keeps reporting that the ceasefire has been holding except for maybe a minor infraction or two, as it’s been reporting until this very moment, Russia has nothing to lose by pressing forward.
This is the same global media, of course, that excoriated Israel during last summer’s Gaza War when it tried to defend itself against thousands of air attacks from Hamas. Yet here is Russia, the aggressor, under no danger to its own people, being honored by newspapers everywhere for keeping the recent truce when it really wasn’t.
And does anyone doubt that the global media will continue to look the other way as Ukraine continues to collapse, one ceasefire after another which Russia will continue to strategically renege on?
“Many threads here show that regular Russian army troops using modern equipment are doing the killing.”
I would hope that the Ukrainians actually catch some Russian combat soldiers allive, parade them on TV for the world to see and then say “See, the Russians are here, fighting against us on our own sovereign territory. This IS an invasion by an outside aggressor”.
I’d like to think it would create a firestorm of public opinion strong enough to make Putin back off. But then again, it’s Vlad Putin we’re dealing with. He really doesn’t give a whit about public opinion.
They have already done that.
They, at first, claimed to be there by "accident" but their unit was based north of Moscow, which is quite a wrong turn. Some did admit they were ordered there.
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