35/ The truck drivers acquired a BTR armoured vehicle with no wheels that had been abandoned by pro-Russian separatist forces from the Donbas. They fixed it up themselves and planned to take it with them as cover. "Maybe they’ll find another 2-3 BTRs somewhere?," Shyaga suggests.

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33/ "[The driver] said when they stay in Izium for two weeks (then go back to Russia for a few days to get fuel), they often get shelled with Grad and Tochkha-U [rockets]. He said they move in columns of 20-40 vehicles without any cover." pic.twitter.com/gJwE9CDz8y

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33/ "[The driver] said when they stay in Izium for two weeks (then go back to Russia for a few days to get fuel), they often get shelled with Grad and Tochkha-U [rockets]. He said they move in columns of 20-40 vehicles without any cover."

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31/ "As a result, infantry with tanks moves out and gets shelled with every weapon possible… Our tanks were hit in dozens during attacks and while marching… [We] have immense vehicle losses, both BTRs and BMPs, trucks, engineering vehicles." pic.twitter.com/qIgNHju5rE

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31/ "As a result, infantry with tanks moves out and gets shelled with every weapon possible… Our tanks were hit in dozens during attacks and while marching… [We] have immense vehicle losses, both BTRs and BMPs, trucks, engineering vehicles."

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27/ "It got to a point where in early May they started sending only 7 people to attack!!", Shyaga says. He concluded that his command "simply had the task of taking Dovhen'ke and simply sent in everyone they could."

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He suggests that Russian commanders were guilty of deliberate deception and wishful thinking. On one occasion, eight helicopters were ordered to support an attack. "Only two of the eight helicopters took off. Others were either broken or had no fuel."

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25/ Rather than rotating their troops, army commanders sent new, minimally trained volunteers to join depleted units and go straight into battle. As one soldier put it, "The volunteers who are coming, they are thrown into infantry. Infantry and reconnaissance are living meat."

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23/ The men of Shyaga's division were also denied the opportunity to rest and recuperate. "[We] were told we will be in Ukraine from two weeks to a month, and then we’d be taken out to Russia for 10 days to rest. But that also was a lie."

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24/ "Specifically in our division there was no rotation. Volunteers on a contract who entered Ukraine on 24 February are still there and never left for Russia. Same for us – if we stayed, we would be there until the end of our contracts, so for half a year until September."

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20/ "Twice before the attacks we were told that everything was going to be alright, that the enemy artillery was suppressed, that ahead of us other units of ours are already advancing and we just needed to reach them."

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17/ Other soldiers said similar things in intercepted calls. "They just sent us in like cannon fodder for slaughter," according to one; "they just threw us in like fucking meat", said another. A soldier, likely talking about the failed attempts to capture Dovken'ke, complained:

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