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Kilio Cha askari wa ukrein wanavyoopata kipigo Cha kikatili kutoka kwa wenzao wa Russia .
Soldiers of the AFU tell about their unenviable situation in the Kherson sector
Soldiers of the AFU tell about their unenviable situation in the Kherson sector. They predict an exhausting positional war.
✔️The shelling at ground zero is almost incessant: sometimes it is impossible to even lift our heads. Soldiers lie at the bottom of the trenches for hours, some cover themselves with body armour, and the most canny ones even haul pieces of iron to the trenches and make individual shelters for themselves. We climb over the parapet in turns, and only if absolutely necessary. Ninety percent of the time we spend at the bottom of the trenches.
✔️ Not all men can bear it - some of them, even those who joined the army voluntarily, after sitting in trenches under constant shelling, try to go to the rear under any pretext. Unfortunately, sometimes there are real epidemics of panic - entire units leave their positions. We call them "skiers", from the saying "to hop on skis", that means to run away. Thus they strip whole districts kilometres long. The saddest thing is that the Russians quickly become aware of such escapes through aerial reconnaissance by drones and they immediately try to wedge into empty sections of the front.
✔️ The territorial defense brigades are considered to be the most unreliable among those holding positions. They have many random people who enlisted in the territorial defense after February 24, fancying that this war would be like Maidan or ATO. And that Russian tanks could be hit with a Molotov cocktail. But this war is different.
✔️ We don't discuss the offensive on Kherson at all. This matter is irrelevant now. Until the Russians get pounded with artillery at least as much as they pound us, any offensive is out of the question. Now for every one of our artillery rounds we get fifty from their side.
✔️ The shells for Soviet howitzers, which are still largely in service with the AFU, are disastrously scarce, they are worth their weight in gold. The same applies to mortar rounds, and the mortars themselves. Mortars in positions are also consumables, they survive no more than a week or two, they are located by drones and quickly knocked out. Therefore, mortar crews, having fired a round or two, run tens of meters away and hide in the trenches. They have neither the strength nor the ability to pull the mortars with them. In a couple of minutes the response is a return strike.... That's the way we fight.
Soldiers of the AFU tell about their unenviable situation in the Kherson sector
Soldiers of the AFU tell about their unenviable situation in the Kherson sector. They predict an exhausting positional war.
✔️The shelling at ground zero is almost incessant: sometimes it is impossible to even lift our heads. Soldiers lie at the bottom of the trenches for hours, some cover themselves with body armour, and the most canny ones even haul pieces of iron to the trenches and make individual shelters for themselves. We climb over the parapet in turns, and only if absolutely necessary. Ninety percent of the time we spend at the bottom of the trenches.
✔️ Not all men can bear it - some of them, even those who joined the army voluntarily, after sitting in trenches under constant shelling, try to go to the rear under any pretext. Unfortunately, sometimes there are real epidemics of panic - entire units leave their positions. We call them "skiers", from the saying "to hop on skis", that means to run away. Thus they strip whole districts kilometres long. The saddest thing is that the Russians quickly become aware of such escapes through aerial reconnaissance by drones and they immediately try to wedge into empty sections of the front.
✔️ The territorial defense brigades are considered to be the most unreliable among those holding positions. They have many random people who enlisted in the territorial defense after February 24, fancying that this war would be like Maidan or ATO. And that Russian tanks could be hit with a Molotov cocktail. But this war is different.
✔️ We don't discuss the offensive on Kherson at all. This matter is irrelevant now. Until the Russians get pounded with artillery at least as much as they pound us, any offensive is out of the question. Now for every one of our artillery rounds we get fifty from their side.
✔️ The shells for Soviet howitzers, which are still largely in service with the AFU, are disastrously scarce, they are worth their weight in gold. The same applies to mortar rounds, and the mortars themselves. Mortars in positions are also consumables, they survive no more than a week or two, they are located by drones and quickly knocked out. Therefore, mortar crews, having fired a round or two, run tens of meters away and hide in the trenches. They have neither the strength nor the ability to pull the mortars with them. In a couple of minutes the response is a return strike.... That's the way we fight.