The Russians May Have Lost An Entire Airborne Brigade In Vovchansk. Russia’s Victory Day offensive is turning into a bloodbath … for Russian troops.

by Woody_Fitzwell

16 comments

  1. This was always going to be yet more of putin’s own desperate Ardennes Offensive, with the same outcome.

  3. >Russian paratroopers: “We can’t take it anymore!”
    >
    >“Three days without food and water. No support. I don’t know what to do next.”

    I do… go home!

  4. Holy Crap, that’s WWII losses right there:
    If the Brigade was full strength (Big IF) 3-4K (edited to reflect I have Maths Dyslexia)

    As of 2021, the brigade usually includes:

    * Two air assault battalions
    * One airborne battalion
    * One recon battalion
    * One tank company
    * One sniper company
    * One howitzer battalion
    * One self-propelled artillery battalion
    * One anti-tank battery
    * One air defence battery

  5. They can starve as far as I’m concerned. Use food and water drop as bait lol

  7. “defeated an elite Russian airborne brigade”

    By June 2024, *elite Russian airborne* are three words for just meat. As in meat brigade.

  8. > 83rd Airborne Brigade troopers in happier times.

    Photo of Russians looking decidedly not happy.

  11. May a Russian Бертольд Шенк, граф Штауффенберг gives a try.

  12. Any word about the surrounded pocket in vovchansk? I haven’t heard much developments about it.

  13. The NAFO group on YouTube joked around on a watchalong of the Moscow May 9 parade that half of the guys in the parade would be dead in a few weeks. Turns out, it might have been prophetic.

  14. I just watched a YouTube interview of an English military think tank guy who has a different take on this offensive. Paraphrasing him, the Russians lost the fight near Vovchansk, but have won strategically because the UKR is forced to commit badly needed reserves to that fight, leaving the southern front more vulnerable.
    He also feels that Ukraine’s prospects are “quite bleak” unless the West commits to ramping up materiel production, and helping to train new UKR units in a big way.
    It was a real bummer to listen to him tbh, because he obviously knows a lot more than he was free to share.

    Edit: [link here](https://youtu.be/t8wB_5LR6d4?si=faQZq17lGsX8w_fn)

  15. It is not the only ruzzian brigade that has been decimated in the Kharkiv fighting. But the 83rd was supposedly a “well trained elite unit” rather than a regular motorized brigade. And they found out the hard way they were not so special!

  16. Cant wait until Putin is error 404, сука. Слава Украине!

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