Posted on 11/07/2022 5:28:02 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Hours after Aleksei Agafonov arrived in the Luhansk region on 1 November as part of a battalion of new conscripts, his unit were handed shovels and ordered to dig trenches throughout the night.
Their digging, which they took turns to do because of the lack of available shovels, was abruptly interrupted in the early hours of the next day as Ukrainian artillery lit up the sky and shells started raining down on Agafonov and his unit.
“A Ukrainian drone first flew over us, and after that their artillery started to pound us for hours and hours, nonstop,” Agafonov, who survived the shelling, told the Guardian in a phone interview on Monday.
“I saw men being ripped apart in front of me, most of our unit is gone, destroyed. It was hell,” he said, adding that his unit’s commanders abandoned them just before the shelling started.
Agafonov was called up on 16 October alongside 570 other conscripts in Voronezh, a city in the south-west of Russia, as part of Vladimir Putin’s nationwide mobilisation push that has seen more than 300,000 men drafted to go and fight in a war that the Kremlin calls its “special military operation”.
After the attacks stopped, Agafonov, with roughly a dozen other soldiers, retreated from the forest outside the Luhansk town of Makiivka to the nearby Russian-controlled city of Svatove. In Svatove, Agafonov and his group moved into a deserted building, trying to contact other mobilised soldiers who had been with him that night.
According to Agafonov’s estimates, only 130 draftees out of the 570 survived the Ukrainian attack, which would make it the deadliest known incident involving conscripts since the start of the mobilisation drive at the end of September.
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What, an overdramatized Russian propaganda film from 6 years ago?
Putlerists can stick it up their collective a**es. Nobody’s buying this garbage.
Russia invaded a sovereign nation that posed no threat to Moscow. Putin miscalculated—spectacularly—and now has his xuy stuck in a crack.
This ends with Tsar Vladimir swinging from a rope.
“This ends with Tsar Vladimir swinging from a rope.”
Very possible. Best he can expect is political asylum in North Korea.
The RuZZian nationals get stirred up with the presentation of facts.
The draftees are going/are currently being slaughtered.
“ The campaign is misleading. Ukraine is losing the war badly. But the U.S. wants to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian…”
Your opinions are becoming more and more unhinged.
The mud aids Ukraine, not Russian supply lines..what little they have.
And Ukraine has said they fight to they last man for themselves, not anyone else. And so far they’ve been the honey badger that shames the old bear.
Nice to mention the election. What time zone are you in, Comrade?
A lot of these guys look long in the tooth to be soldiers.
This isn’t an army. It’s a rabble of unmotivated conscripts , thugs, old men and scared kids who are poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly led.
Sullivan is making overtures
Whatever that battle going on. Now
Iglibaa. (Sic)
It’s a bloodbath both sides sounds like
“Ukraine is losing the war badly.”
I suspect you are correct, but Biden, Congress, the Deep State and Military Industrial Complex desperately want to keep this war going because it’s great for business. It allows companies like Lockheed and their investors to make big bucks while allowing Biden and Congress (both “R” and “D”) and Deep State to continue their money laundering/drug dealing/illegal weapons trade unabated. Those people are making billions of $$$ from this nightmare. Heck, Joe just authorized another $800 billion in aid to Ukraine, and if you think that money is for bullets and bombs, I would very much like to sell you a bridge.
Truly evil and depraved people.
Pretty much
If I see are telegram or Alexander sayin Russia is bleeding I believe it
Not a peep on Bakhmut USA press
Tells u Ukraine is bleeding
Man their losses are rough
This battle I can’t spell
Igladaa?
Sounds very for forlorn hope.
Both sides doesn’t it?
I’ve seen videos of young poorly trained ukrop lads being slaughtered or awaiting certain death trembling in their dugout
Wagner grim reapers moving in black flag methodically like determined fearless pros
Dying crying praying shaking uncontrollably these kids not knowing what the F to do and their young lives about to end violently in a cold ditch surrounded by already dead pals
Kids high school age
Made me tear up I ain’t gonna lie I have boys that age one in uniform
Drone not fifty foot over them recording
I had to look away
What a waste for a fait accompli from jump street
“ This ends with Tsar Vladimir swinging from a rope.”
No, this ends in sunshine from a can.
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