- Simplicius - SITREP 13 Aug 2023: AFU Struggles For Symbolic Meaning In Late Summer Doldrums Archived Message
Posted by sashimi
on August 14, 2023, 9:23 am
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Western MSM has begun to lose it. Pessimism and dooming is now endemic to their reports. They've pretty much accepted that Ukraine has no chance in the counter-offensive. ... The next piece of info is a document that was leaked which shows the losses for the Ukrainian 5th Separate Assault Brigade from the period of January 1, 2023 to July 31, 2023 The first page describes the unit being withdrawn for reconstitution. The second page gives the numbers. The losses are very telling. The brigade lost a total of 1,845 irretrievable losses. Keep in mind, this brigade had at most 3,000 and some believe 2,000 people total. This therefore represents anywhere from 70% to 90%+ losses for the 7 month period of this year's fighting. If this brigade's losses are representative of most of the others, then roughly 2000 losses x ~50 other brigades is pretty much over 100k losses for this year alone. Granted, this 5th Brigade was assigned to Bakhmut and thus experienced some of the most brutal attrition in the early months of this year against Wagner forces. What's also notable is that 13 of the losses in the document are listed as 'suicide'. This is interesting because suicide has become so prevalent in the ranks of the AFU that we have a new leaked document of a ministry of defense order to immediately halt the supply of ammunition to new recruits in order to keep them from committing suicide en masse: -- Cont'd at https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-81323-afu-struggles-for-symbolic |
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