I lit up some captured cigarettes. I applied haemostatic agents to my wounds. Painkillers. I bandaged myself well. It wasn’t bleeding. Life felt more cheerful! I collapsed onto the bunk. I fell asleep for a short time, still clutching my automatic weapon.
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Soldat creuse un trou après avoir trouvé un camarade mort
32/ "I noticed one of our guys lying dead. I saw an engineer's shovel on his gear. I decided to take it and dig a hole to spend the night in. I walked over. I unbuckled it. And suddenly, I heard Ukrainian spoken nearby, coming from a dugout.
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Freeze in the fray and night escape
I threw myself into the thickest part of them and froze there. Twilight fell. The drones flew away, exploding somewhere in the distance. I headed in the general direction, planning to reach our people. The adrenaline in my blood was gone. The pain was getting worse.
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Surviving Fleeing Drones
29/ "You stand, pressed tightly against the trunk. Maybe they won't notice you. You need nerves of steel to stay still and keep track of the drones' movements. As soon as you see that it's targeting you, run, dodge as best you can!"
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War Memories in a Garage
"But as soon as we managed to squeeze into the corner of the garage, hiding behind the iron gate, the bullets started flying in, one after another. I counted at least twenty explosions. What else could we do in our situation? Just count."
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Four survivors under kamikaze drones
He hadn't run more than ten meters when a kamikaze drone crashed into his stomach. There are four of us left. We slip under the walls of the house. Immediately, a couple of kamikaze drones fly at us. We try to hide around the corner. There are two explosions behind us.
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Allegations of city take on credit and opposition to support
21/ [This is a reference to commanders falsely claiming that a settlement has been captured, in order to make themselves look good. Russian soldiers complain that if a settlement has been 'taken on credit', they are denied fire support when attacking it, costing many lives.]
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Absurd Bureaucracy: Infantry in Batches, Not Five Shots
20/ "What a bureaucratic mess! You can lay down infantry in batches, but firing five shots, even taking into account the wear and tear on the barrels, is categorically impossible! That's how 'taking settlements on credit' works."
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Interdicted artillery despite village captured
They weren’t sparing their ammunition. It was difficult to get close. We requested artillery support. But they told us that they had already reported to the top brass that the entire settlement had been taken under control. The artillery was not allowed to fire.
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Drone operators miss their target
We asked the drone operators to launch a kamikaze drone through the windows. But for some reason, the operators only hit the roof of the house. They were striking the walls. For the enemy, it was nothing more than a concussion.