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World News See other World News Articles Title: Wounded Ukrainian Soldiers Paint Grim Picture Of Kherson Counter-Offensive Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Ukrainian soldiers detailed in comments to The Washington Post the steep toll that Ukraine was facing in its southern Kherson counteroffensive, an operation that the US reportedly helped Ukraine prepare. Since launching the offensive at the end of August, Ukrainian officials haven’t offered much detail about the operation, and reporters are not allowed on the frontlines. But the Ukrainian soldiers, who spoke with the Post in a hospital, painted a grim picture of what the battle has been like for the Ukrainian side. The Ukrainian soldiers said that they lacked the artillery needed to oust Russia’s forces from their positions. The soldiers said that they had to carefully ration their munitions, and when they did fire their weapons, they had trouble hitting their targets. One platoon commander told the Post that Ukrainian forces "lost five people for every one they did." Ukraine has claimed some success in the offensive, but the claims cannot be verified. The soldiers interviewed by the Post that they were able to capture some villages that were previously controlled by Russia, but it’s not clear if Ukraine is capable of holding on to those positions. According to one section of the WaPo report: Oleksandr said the Russian artillery fire was relentless. "They were just hitting us all the time," he said. "If we fire three mortars, they fire 20 in return." The Ukrainian soldiers said they had to carefully ration their use of munitions but even when they did fire, they had trouble hitting targets. "When you give the coordinates, it’s supposed to be accurate, but it’s not," he said, noting that his equipment dated back to 1989. Oleksandr had never traveled to Kherson before the war, but he said the goal of expelling Russian invaders was worth sacrificing a limb. "It’s our country," he said. However, the report acknowledged that a "clear picture of Ukraine’s losses could not be independently assessed." This week, Ukraine launched another counteroffensive in eastern Ukraine in the Kharkiv region. According to the military analysis website Southfront, Ukraine has had some success in its attack on Russian positions near Kharkiv. Poster Comment: Ukrainian casualties are above 210,00. Desertions plus captured totals 110,000. Zelensky sacrificed thousands of men so he could have an offensive to impress his donors and get another few billion dollars which he and his friends in Kiev can steal. Another soldiers said that the Russian tanks were in concrete shelters. They came out and fired against us. We returned fire but they had retreated back into their protected shelters. Then their artillery having spotted our locations from drones 1,000 feet above us returned a devastating fire. Gonzalo Lira told us that the US military learned their lesson early one morning in March when Russian cruise missiles were fired from 400 kilometers (248.6 miles) away at a NATO training base near the Polish border. The US radar had no warning that the missiles were incoming. Cruise missiles are comparatively slow at Mach 3, but Russian Electronic Warfare is so far beyond ours that we never knew they were coming. There were 400 NATO soldiers on the base with $400 million in modern weapons for the Ukrainians. The soldiers all died and the weapons were destroyed. Lesson learned. ' Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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