Parece que un batallón ruso de 500 solo quedaron 20 con vida porque los dejaron tirados con 4 cargadores y los oficiales se dieron el piro.
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“Hello, my name is Popova Inna Sergeevna, I’d like to address the governor and the higher authorities with a plea of help our servicemen, mobilized and citizens. They were mobilized around the 12th of October, before or after, at 162 Ubylstilinsky Prospect, sent from their military unit in the direction of Valuyki (russian staging area near Belgorod). There they were reorganized and directed in the direction of Luhansk. On the very first day they were brought there, they were deployed on the front, on the first line. All of the commanding officers, from platoon to company levels, left the battlefield and ran away. They explained this by saying they’ll come back and bring the mobilized servicemen their things (wtf???). They never came back and within 40 minutes the positions came under attack, grenades, mortars and all types of other weaponry. The battle continued for three days. This is from the words of eyewitnesses, specifically including my husband. The battle went on for three days. Our soldiers were surviving any way they could, all they had were rifles and issued four magazines each, rifles or Kalashnikovs or whatever, and personal armored vests. They weren’t fed, they didn’t sleep or eat for three days, were holding the line and didn’t run away unlike their commanding officers.
They were told to dig in, and they only had one shovel for every 30 soldiers.
After the battle had ended and it went quiet, the [survivors] walked to the commandant that was locat… Starobeslka commandant’s office. There they wrote a report stating they were engaged in combat on the contact line, they didn’t surrender, but they were asking to be relieved from the front lines. They were allowed to relocate a bit further back, yes, but they weren’t removed from the frontline, they weren’t actually removed. After which they started contacting us around Svatove. About 30 people answered and two were wounded, they weren’t in a hospital. Some others answered back from the hospital in the Starobelskiy raion. So, uhh, the purpose of our address, help us to relieve our mobilized soldiers, to remove them from the first lines of contact, to render them material, physical and moral help, also psychological, and to send all the wounded and uninjured to the hospital…”