via KJIVpost.com
They walked straight into a trap, over extended their lines and now they're getting throat punched.
Read it all here.
MARIUPOL, Ukraine -- Early on Aug. 29, a column of some 70 Ukrainian armored vehicles rushed from Ilovaisk, a city in Donetsk Oblast, through a corridor offered by Russian troops.The push by Ukrainian troops is starting to look more and more like a simple tactical problem a future leader of Marines might get at The Basic School.
After driving 10 kilometers, the fleeing Ukrainians were instead trapped under massive shelling by cannons and tanks. The armored vehicles caught fire.
“That was a real meat grinder,” Taras Samchuk, 28, soldier of 51th brigade told the Kyiv Post. “One armored vehicle exploded right next to us and the head of its gunner was burning in its helmet.”
The Ukrainian troops lost hundreds of their fighters, including at least 100 killed, with others wounded or captured on the way out of Ilovaisk, a strategic city through which separatists were receiving military supplies from Russia to the besieged provincial capital of Donetsk.
They walked straight into a trap, over extended their lines and now they're getting throat punched.
Read it all here.
Offer was made for safe passage ,no heavy gear APCs etc. But i doubt the claims ,Kiev is now in great need to explain the losses to the populace and survive the anger.
ReplyDeleteBest way to do it? treacherous Russians shot them in the back while they are retreating under white flag kind of way.
Right, the agreement was for the Ukies to leave all their heavy weapons and ammo behind undamaged. This is what happened in previous encirclements in the southern sector. The rebels use this as major source of supply and like to show off their trophies.
DeleteThe Ukies tried to leave with all their gear and got batted.
This official news of kiev official Press...
ReplyDeleteAfter the heroic kamikaze move, now the please no surrender move...
But I'm just a suspicious "Putler" Troololol !
IIRC Ukraine exchanged the 10 russian paratroopers they captured earlier for the safe passage which was apparently granted by herr putler. So that leads us to the rule number one when talking to xuylostan: don't believe anything they have to say.
ReplyDeleteAfaik the exchange was 10 paratroopers for 68 ukranians who had crossed into Russia.
Deletepretty sure those were actually 5000. and they were actually martians.
DeleteThe trap was prepared, maybe from the start any fleeing Ukrainian would be attacked, maybe they were ready for this type of situation.
ReplyDeleteOr just nobody hear the old saying... NEVER trust Russian.