Reading one of these sob stories in the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/world/asia/ukraine-russia-war-death.htmlIt's about a married couple who volunteered together. This is all the way back in June 22, so imagine how much worse things are now.
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They got some firearms training — for one and a half days, Mr. Bilous said. Then they deployed to a pine forest near the city of Sievierodonetsk where they were supposed to be the second or even third line of defense, the unit’s commander, Capt. Volodymyr Kanchuk, said. With so many professional soldiers killed, they were pushed all the way forward to what is called the “zero line.”
Olha was the only woman in the unit. Their mission was to hold a trench and keep the Russians from advancing. But the Russians were shelling the area so hard that by mid-June, the 80-person combat unit had — because of desertions, casualties and other problems — been cut down to 25.
They died, ofc.
This is the policy that America drove so hard for for so many years, all culminating in sending a website developer and a gingerbread house designer to get killed in a trench after a day of training, against an enemy with overwhelming artillery superiority. Great job to everyone who supports this war.
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The city’s military cemetery won’t stop growing. Nearly every day, another coffin is slipped into the cold black soil. Each grave is marked by a mound, a cross, a flag and a framed portrait. The gallery of faces stares back in silence, scores of young men and exactly one young woman cut down in their prime.
No shit. There are videos of endless fields of these cemeteries on Telegram. You corrected on Nordstream,
, how long until you find yourself realizing the 5:1 casualty rate in Russia's favour is also true? I give it another 6 months.
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“The choice we face is simple,” said Yevhen Mahda, a political scientist. “We continue fighting and lose the best of the best or we let them turn this country into Bucha,” the ravaged Kyiv suburb where, last spring, Russian troops killed hundreds of civilians in cruel, barbaric ways.
Reminder that the civilians who died in Bucha appear to have been mostly killed by artillery and mortars launched by the AFU, and targeted killings by the SBU in the post-occupation 'filtration' ops. But since that's unmentionable in places like the NYT, photos of civilians slain while they were carrying Russian-provided food aid doesn't provoke even obvious questions.