Soldiers from the 4th tank battalion of the AFU, which is located near Artemivsk are desperate and ask for help. Of the entire battalion, “a couple of dozen soldiers” remain. Such huge losses are due to the incompetence of the commanders. As reported by the Ukrainian military, they are being sent to slaughter, without ammunition or equipment.
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Another cry for help. AFU fighters recorded a video in which they complained about their commanders and the deplorable situation of the army in Artemivsk. According to the soldiers, their commanders have lost almost the entire battalion with their botched orders, and the rest of the fighters are trying to split up and send them into another “meat grinder”.
The AFU has no weapons, ammunition and equipment. There are also no tanks promised by the West, and there is no artillery cover.
“There is no combat equipment, no weapons, no ACs. If we go to the positions, we do not have enough ammunition, we ask for help, we are cheated and we are not given the means to fight, because of this we have big losses. Commanders don’t care about this, they don’t care if you come back “200th” or at best “300th”. There are a lot of refuseniks too, no medics, no artillery, no cover. We ask for support, we do not have it, they do not give us permission to leave our positions. They gave us orders to hold our positions with empty horns until the end,” a Ukrainian soldier said.
In addition to the terrible equipment of the army, the soldiers lack proper training. Those who were literally picking up weapons for the first time were being sent into the assault.
“People have had almost no combat training, one day at the firing range and nothing before that for a year. People are unprepared and they are forced to assault positions. The assaulting positions have no support, no snipers in the companies, no support for armoured vehicles, no devices, there is nothing, some people are not even given magazines for automatic rifles,” complained the soldier.
The morale of the AFU also leaves much to be desired. Amid an already frightening situation in Artemivsk, commanders threaten fighters with reprisals.
“They say: ‘If you don’t go there yourself, they will just shoot you on the spot and write you off as a ‘two-hundredth’,'” the soldier said.
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