Commentary by Russian blogger Andrey Chervonets, except as noted
I think in just a few days we will find out the approximate losses of Ukrainians in the area of the crossing over the Ingulets River and to the south, in the area of the Sukhoi Stavok settlement. Maybe we will not reach the maximum result in terms of destroyed Ukrainian soldiers, but at least we will be very close.
One thing I can say for sure, there is hell, I mean hell for the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They have not yet had such losses, and to be honest, I don’t know how the Ukrainians will come up with a win. Not only everyone, few people can drive such a quantity of equipment and personnel into the bare steppe under the blows of everything that is possible, including bomber aircraft.
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Says Chervonets:
The brothers began to estimate the losses of the Ukrainians in the Kherson offensive, noting that there was no clarity.
There are no exact figures yet, and this is so, if only because: 1) the operation is still ongoing, and the Ukrainians are trying to shove in some places, getting a sopatka (at least a platoon per light day of losses); 2) We use both MLRS, TOS, and FAB-500 in the enemy’s battle formations. And this, you understand, is ammunition of a volumetric explosion and a caliber of such that, as in a playful will attributed to Taras Shevchenko: “Then take the brushes, give them to the dogs to cook.”
TOS is a flamer thrower armored tracked vehicle. FAB-500 is a 500 kilogram fuel air bomb. Taras Shevchenko is a Ukrianian writer.
And if no joke, then the joyful howling in the networks of the Ukrainians was noticeably less (they were forbidden to discuss the army, well, well). But already after the first day of the "offensive" in Kyiv, it was hinted that in just one day the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded the number of those killed in the Ilovaisk cauldron-2014.
And near Ilovaisk, with the calculation of the losses of the Ukrainians, the Ukrainians themselves are also not all openwork: in the Armed Forces of Ukraine themselves they underestimated to 300-plus, figures of 420-450 flashed on the network, in the military prosecutor's office of Ukraine they estimated the number of killed and missing at more than 500 ( plus the same number of wounded), and the Verkhovna Rada published the figure of its own investigation of 1000 - killed in action.
So judge for yourself - the Ukrainian Army climbs for the sixth day (began on the night of August 29), and if every day is like the Ilovaisk cauldron, then mourning tapes will be hung out not only in Transcarpathia.
Ilovaisk refers to the 2014 Ilovaisk cauldron in Donetsk in which several thousand Ukrainian soldiers and militants were trapped, and later liquidated by the separatists.
With Zelenskiy, Ukrainians are taking new steps into hell.