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| Military correspondent describes that hell was going on at the Ukrainian Armed Forces training ground in Selidovo |
| 2024-02-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The attack by Russian troops turned the Ukrainian Armed Forces training ground in Selidovo into hell. This was stated by military correspondent Alexander Kots in his Telegram channel. According to him, the strike was carried out by Iskander-M missiles with a cluster warhead, each warhead of which is equipped with 54 fragmentation warheads of non-contact detonation, triggered at a height of about 10 m above the ground. He noted that this ammunition is a death sentence for manpower not hidden indoors. The military correspondent explained that the fragments fly vertically downwards, which makes it possible to hit infantry even in deep trenches. In this case, one ammunition covers an area of two football fields. “It’s scary to imagine what kind of hell was going on at the Selidovo training ground after the strike,” Kots wrote, noting that the training ground “turned into a meat grinder.” As reported by IA Regnum, on February 13, the Telegram channel “Military Observer” reported that a missile attack by the Russian Armed Forces covered 1.5 thousand Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters at the training ground in Selidovo, which is located 30 kilometers from Avdeevka. This information has not been officially confirmed. According to various sources, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers arrived at the training ground for exercises or rotation. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT television channel, reported that Syrsky classified data on losses due to the strike of the Russian Armed Forces on the Selidovo training ground. According to her, the Ukrainian military was trained there for the battles for Avdiivka; the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces could reach up to 1.5 thousand people. Political scientist Sergei Markov noted that the strike of the Russian Armed Forces on the Selidovo training ground could lead to huge losses in the Ukrainian troops. According to him, there was a concentration of forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for Avdiivka. |
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