Ukraine Always Get What You Want

What Bradley Fighting Vehicles Will Mean for Ukraine

 

Interesting read. A Russian force abandoned its base in eastern Ukraine, after suffering heavy losses during weeks of fighting last summer. Reuters got to go in and look at the documents they left behind, and through those and follow-up interviews put together a picture of the Russian side of the war in that little slice of Ukraine.
Long story short, it sucks to be a Russian soldier.

Abandoned Russian base holds secrets of retreat in Ukraine

 

In a war like that one, it sucks to be a soldier on either side.

 

At times like these, I miss M*A*S*H

 

That's all wars, really. One side may have legitimate and important reasons to fight and soldiers on both sides are certainly told that they do, but war always sucks for the guys on the sharp end.

 

The only thing keeping Ukraine from retaking its country is just masses and masses of Russian teenage bodies.

I wonder if that's a Putin sympathy card to be eventually played.

 

At some point, that chicken has to come home to roost in Russia.
"Hey, where are our family members?"

 

Those family members live in houses and apartments. And those houses and apartments have a lot of windows.

 

There's evidence the bodies aren't just Russian. The mercenary groups the Russians are using appear to be recruiting people from Africa.

 

Interestingly, Russia's primary import and primary export are the same:

suffering.