"But no car was sent for us, no one was looking for us, no one worried 'where are they, how are they.' We were just abandoned like kittens. What we had was an automatic rifle, 10 clips each, and a couple of grenades."
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Mobilised of the 34th Brigade Refusing the Frontline
15/ "Well, what could we do against mortars that fired at us without response, tanks that drove into an open field and hit us with direct fire. Now, as mobilised men of the 34th brigade, we refuse to go to the front line."
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Soldiers driven back without psychological help, unprepared for war
11/ "We were driven back to our positions without psychological help. We did not prepare for this, we did not know how it would be for us, we thought we had a line of defence ahead of us, that there are contract [professional] soldiers there, who were performing such actions.
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Soldiers miraculously saved after severe injury
One of the soldiers stayed with him; by some unimaginable miracle, a car arrived in which (as we later found out) were our commanders. They took him away—he had a very serious leg injury. And we left two days later.
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Retreat under fire with casualties
We were like that for more than 6 hours, and after that we received an order to retreat. While retreating, we lost one soldier, and a second was wounded; later we learned that he died in hospital. We had 6-7 wounded, and nobody came for us.
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Russian brigade mauled in Lobkove-Piatykhatky area after defeat
3/ The men are likely to have been in the Lobkove-Piatykhatky area, where the Russians recently suffered a heavy defeat. The brigade has been badly mauled before during the fighting north of Kherson in 2022. In the recording, the unidentified soldier says:
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Mobilised Russians say abandoned like kittens, face heavy losses
1/ Mobilised Russians facing the Ukrainian counter-offensive say they were "abandoned like kittens" by their commanders, faced Ukrainian tanks and artillery with light weapons, little ammo and no counter-fire, took heavy casualties, and had no medical evacuations on hand.
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Russian soldier from ‘Storm’ detachment redeployed to Zaporizhzhia front
2/ The "Look out, news" Telegram channel has posted an audio recording of a Russian soldier from the 'Storm' detachment of the 34th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade. His unit is likely to have recently been redeployed to the Zaporizhzhia front from the left bank of the Dnipro.
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Lukashenko saved himself, not Putin, from Prigozhin’s mutiny.
“Lukashenko was not saving Putin. He was saving himself. He realised that if Prigozhin reached Moscow he would be the first to crumble” https://
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elarus-leader-long-supplicant-feted-russia-after-mutiny-role-2023-06-27/
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11 killed, including 3 children, in Russian strike on Kramatorsk
The death toll in Russia's missile strike on central Kramatorsk continued to rise on June 28, a day after the attack. State Emergency Service reported that at least 11 people – including three children – were killed, and 56 were wounded, including an eight-month-old baby.