Over the weekend, there were reports of a large number of casualties among the Russian military, which was deployed on the front line in Ukraine in two different areas.
As the number of unprepared mobilized on the Russian front increased, it became increasingly difficult to hide their heavy losses in personnel.
One shovel for 30 people
On Saturday, the Russian independent publication Nestka reported heavy casualties among those mobilized from the Voronezh region. Near the village of Makeevka in the Svatovsky district of the Luhansk region, hundreds of people may have died as a result of the peeling of the contact line.
“We were thrown into the landings, told to dig in, we had three shovels per battalion, no support at all. We dug in as best we could, and shelling began in the morning. Artillery, Grads, mortars, copters – they were just shot us,” Nestka quoted one of the surviving servicemen, Alexei Agafonov.
The publication also published a video message from women to the governor of the Voronezh region and “higher authorities” with a request for help to the mobilized, which was called in mid-October. They were sent “to Luhansk” and on the first day were “put on the front line,” and the commanders “left the battlefield and fled,” said one of the women in the video, who identified herself as Inna Popova.
“The fight lasts three days,” she says, referring to her husband. “They were told to dig, and one shovel was for 30 people,” another woman opined in the video. After the battle, according to their version, the mobilized “reached the commandant’s office” and reported that they “went through the battle, did not surrender.” “Their demand is to be removed from the front lines,” Popova said. “They were allowed to retreat a little. (But) no one fired them in fact!
Only 31 people contacted.
On Sunday, Governor Alexander Gusev met with relatives of the victim, who recorded a video message. “We discussed the format of interaction. The dialogue will continue, I keep the issue under personal control,” the governor said. He did not comment on the allegations of “great sacrifices”, and his press service later said: “We do not take responsibility for making such statements and discussing any numbers and facts. It is important that the governor will personally make inquiries.”
The women were promised that their husbands would be taken out of the combat zone “within three days” and all would be sent to the hospital.
The sailors are running out
On Sunday, it became known that there may be heavy losses among the military personnel of the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet in another sector of the front – in the Donetsk region during the battles for the settlement of Pavlovka, control over whether which had passed from one side to the other more than once. The military sent an appeal to the Governor of Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako.
This was reported by pro-Kremlin telegram channels and “military correspondents”, including VGTRK correspondent Alexander Sladkov. He did not quote the letter, limiting himself to a retelling: “Huge losses, the inability to convey to the top leadership information about our high useless losses in men and equipment. I have the numbers, but then this is the business of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office.”
The alleged text of the appeal to Kozhemyako was published by pro-Kremlin blogger Anastasia Kashevarova. It follows from this that the Marines “again” were thrown “into an incomprehensible offensive.”
It is said that the loss of killed, wounded and missing in four days may be “about 300 people.”
On Monday, November 7, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the units of the 155th brigade have been conducting offensive operations for more than 10 days, and the losses of the Marines “during this period will not exceed 1% of the strength of the battle and 7% of the wounded, a large part of which has returned to duty.”
The Ukrainian military did not comment on reports of alleged heavy losses of mobilized in the Lugansk region and military professionals from the Far East in the Donetsk region.
Source: korrespondent
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