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My guilt is that I, as a citizen of my country, allowed this war to happen and could not stop it,
Mediazona quoted him as saying Based on the results of the work, all necessary decisions have been made to strengthen the units with reserves, additional ammunition, weapons, and military equipment,
Stop killing. Let’s stop the war.”
He held a hand-written placard saying I won't be revealing a military secret if I say that our front has crumbled.
In an interview with former Ukrainian MP Borislav Bereza last month, Col-Gen Dmytro Marchenko said Tatarstan is among the three regions with the highest number of confirmed losses in 2024. This is primarily due to the active work of local volunteers who collect data on the deceased. Acquaintances and relatives of the soldiers send and publish information about the dead in local communities, often reporting cases that were not publicised by local authorities,
Our calculations show that a man from Tyva is nine times more likely to die in the war than a resident of Moscow. At least 52% of all those killed are people who were not associated with the Russian army at the outbreak of the war,
Because of a lack of political will and poor management of troops, especially in the infantry, we certainly are not moving in a direction to properly defend the territories that we control now,
If there’s no end term (to military service), it turns into a prison – it becomes psychologically hard to find reasons to defend this country,
People cannot psychologically cope with the situation they are in, and they are not provided with psychological help,
said attorney Tetyana Ivanova It is clear that now, frankly speaking, we have already squeezed the maximum out of our people,
said an officer with the 72nd Brigade, who noted that desertion was one of the main reasons Ukraine lost the town of Vuhledar in October Being quiet about a huge problem only harms our country,
said Serhii Hnezdilov, one of few soldiers to speak publicly about his choice to desert The main thing is that they leave combat positions during hostilities and their comrades die because of it. We had several situations when units fled, small or large. They exposed their flanks, and the enemy came to these flanks and killed their brothers in arms, because those who stood on the positions did not know that there was no one else around,
The percentage has grown exponentially every month,
At this stage, I do not condemn any of the soldiers from my battalion and others. … Because everyone is just really tired,
They would not have taken the territory, they would not have conquered anything, but no one would have returned,
Meanwhile guys (Ukrainian soldiers) 10 kilometers (6 miles) away order you on the radio: ‘Go on, brace yourselves. Everything will be fine,
The best way to explain it is imagining you are sitting under incoming fire and from their (Russian) side, it’s 50 shells coming toward you, while from our side, it’s just one. Then you see how your friends are getting torn to pieces, and you realize that any second, it can happen to you,
We are now in the situation when we need more equipment to arm all the people that have already been mobilized, and we think the first priority is to send quicker, faster military aid,
Heorhii Tykhyi, a spokesman for Ukraine's foreign ministry, told reporters in Kyiv I can confirm that this topic is being discussed at negotiations. I can refute that this is a point of tension or that it's being discussed in a critical or negative manner,
