Russian troopers have recorded a message slamming Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian navy excessive command for leaving them excessive and dry in a frozen trench with provides or medical care. Recording the scene in Ukraine‘s Luhansk province, the Russian soldier hits out at commanders for forcing his unit into the ice-filled trench with “blackmail.”

The Russian infantryman studies: “So there are unbelievable positions. ‘Ready’ in line with the opinion of our command.

“We’re presupposed to f***ing dwell right here,” exclaims one other.

The person recording provides: “For clarification, it’s -20C exterior proper now.

“We’re provided to dwell right here within the ice, on the identical time, our management is blackmailing us, not offering us with medical help and provides till we transfer into these positions.

Interesting to Putin personally, the soldier continues: “We imagine the actions of our command undermine the fight functionality of our military!

“The fellows will merely freeze and get unwell – who’s going to be preventing!”

Russia stated Thursday that its forces are edging nearer to capturing a salt-mining city in japanese Ukraine, which might mark an elusive victory for the Kremlin however come at the price of heavy Russian casualties and in depth destruction of the territory they declare.

Greater than 100 Russian troops have been killed within the battle for Soledar over the previous 24 hours, Ukraine’s Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko stated in televised remarks.

“The Russians have actually marched on the our bodies of their very own troopers, burning all the things on their method,” Kyrylenko stated whereas reporting that Russian forces had shelled a dozen cities and villages within the area prior to now day.

Russian forces are utilizing mortars and rockets to bombard Soledar in an unrelenting assault, struggling for a breakthrough after navy setbacks have turned what the Kremlin hoped could be a quick victory right into a grinding conflict of attrition that has dragged on for practically 11 months endlessly.

Kyrylenko added: “Civilians try to outlive amid that massacre because the Russians are urgent their assaults.”

Soledar’s fall could be a prize for a Kremlin starved of fine battlefield information in latest months, after dropping the numerous metropolis of Kherson in December.

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It could additionally supply Russian troops a springboard to overcome different areas of the japanese Donetsk province that stay beneath Ukrainian management, notably the close by strategic metropolis of Bakhmut.

The Russians’ tactic within the assault on Soledar is to ship one or two waves of troopers, many from the non-public Russian navy contractor Wagner Group who take heavy casualties as they probe the Ukrainian defenses, a Ukrainian officer close to Soledar informed The Related Press.

When Ukrainian troops undergo casualties and are exhausted, the Russians ship in one other wave of highly-trained troopers, paratroopers or particular forces, to get a brand new toehold on the battlefield, stated the Ukrainian officer, who insisted on anonymity for safety causes.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov praised the “selfless and brave motion” of Russian troops, which he stated helps them to press ahead in Soledar.