35/ They spent their time in the trenches and dugouts, under constant shelling and bombing by drones with thermal imagers, attacking even at night. Simply getting to and from the front lines was very dangerous, with the men sustaining casualties on the way.
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36/ Igor says that they evacuated the wounded once a day, "in the evening, in the dark, when only drones with thermal imagers fly. Then they are evacuated to the hospital. And we didn’t pull out the dead. They lie where they fell. When we go the next day, they still lie there.
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Russian troops retreat, realizing positions were a drone and mortar trap.
32/ They retreated from the positions they occupied, having realised that they were a trap. "As we understood, the Ukrops deliberately let us in so they could hit us with drones and mortars afterwards.
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Battle resumes with casualties, severe injuries including shrapnel wounds and facial trauma.
28/ The next day the battle started again and we had the first killed, many wounded, among them some heavy ones. Shrapnel hit my arms, legs, one man's chest, one man's cheek was torn off."
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DNR fighters show contempt for mobilized men, refuse evacuation for wounded.
29/ According to the mobilised men, the DNR fighters treat them with contempt and will not evacuate them if they are wounded. Igor testifies to this in his account: "The most beautiful thing I heard from our commander [a DNR man] was: "Go and die."
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Tank inaccuracy: one hit in ten shots, constant realignment needed.
25/ Just so you understand, a tank can only get one hit out of ten shots, God forbid. And not always. The tank is inaccurate, it changes the point and cannot hit the same point a second time, it has to constantly re-align.
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Advancing 300m, holding a tractor-dug trench with 50m to go
26/ By the evening of the second day we had moved three hundred metres closer to the Ukrainian positions, with about fifty metres to go. There was just a trench dug by a tractor with loopholes, no roof, no dugouts. Our task was to hold on to the trench.
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NATO: Russia Lost Over 200,000 Troops in Ukraine Invasion
NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe said Russia has lost more than 200,000 troops since the start of its invasion in Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, describing the extent of the war as "unbelievable."
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Deux hommes blessés par des bombes lors d’un assaut
24/ Two of our men were immediately wounded by shrapnel from the bombs the bird had brought. We had no mortars either, we were covered by one little tank, an old one. It covered the enemy positions with 'canopies'.
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Advance with casualties, outnumbered in aerial support
23/ Here we had already received orders to advance, to reach the enemy positions and occupy them. From this point on we began to have casualties. The enemy had four "birds" – quadcopters with bombs, conventional grenades, mortars. We had only one "bird" that could carry bombs.