The Russian army’s lack of strategy leads to an inevitable sacrifice of its troops, who fight without precise orders or objectives.
Sergeant Serhii Sanders, a doctor in the Ukrainian army, has a curious theory that allows him to joke about a reality that seems to accept no jokes. “It’s like being at war with zombies. The Russians are sent out to fight en masse, like hordes of zombies. Those who die are left on the battlefield without the rest thinking about the fate that awaits them, as if they had no We have fewer men and fewer weapons, but we have brains, which is why we successfully counterattacked.
His interlocutors smiled at the incident in front of hospital number 2 in Kramatorsk, the main Kiev bastion in the disputed Donetsk province, where nearly three months of offensive failed to break the defense. “Here in Kramatorsk, the front line has not shifted. When the invasion started, Russia took places like Kherson, Mariupol or part of Zaporizhzhya, but then stopped advancing. Then our counter-offensive started and that stopped them. Kramatorsk is now a safe zone. The situation in Bakhmut is more complicated because of the air raids, but we are not leaving there, not even from Slaviansk. We’re not going anywhere,” says the sergeant, originally from the Russian city of Irkutsk, despite the surname with which he identifies.
Many experts agree with Sanders about the Russian standoff in various parts of Ukraine following the withdrawal from Kiev, Chernigov and Kharkov. Western intelligence attributes it to Moscow’s decision to focus its offensive on Donbas in order to consolidate its control over the strip of territory it initially coveted, stretching to the south, with the aim of reaching Odessa, thus robbing Ukraine. of its vital outlet for the sea.
Sanders, like other uniformed men, blames it on a lack of strategy. “They have a much larger population than ours and one of the most powerful armies, but we have seen massive losses from Russians since day one. When we take prisoners, we ask why they are fighting. “We don’t know, against the Nazis,” they say. I know why, for my family, for my friends and for my country. They are no longer people to me, I feel nothing by killing them. They are zombies that want to devour mine.
It’s not a novelty: Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov is credited with a revealing phrase. They say that Zhukov explained to US General Dwight D. Eisenhower his method of clearing minefields in World War II: sending infantry as if there were no explosives. “Women will give birth to more men,” the marshal said in a phrase used in Russia as a synonym for cannon fodder.
The old trolley bus that stumbles through the streets of Kramatorsk seems like an anachronism. At a stop on Yuveleina Street, four passengers join the dozen who take their places in contrast to the deserted, haunted streets that have marked the city since a Russian shell-fired on April 8 killed 59 people at the train station. Then the city council asked its citizens to leave the city and 70% did. As the war continues, many return, vaguely reviving life on the streets.
“What can we do? There is no work and people cannot live off the air,” says Tatiana, supervisor of the Semiá (Familia) supermarket. “At least here you don’t have to pay rent, because people have their own house and there are is electricity, water, gas and food, as you can see.” Products are spare parts thanks to trucks from Dnipro and Petrovska.
Source: La Verdad
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