russian infantry squad being pinned down by Ukrainian small arms and FPV drone fire. Avdiivka, 2023.

14 comments

1. Worms

2. Is this what they now call “Meat waves”?

3. How these two (?) guys could survive the second impact is totally beyond me.

4. I think they failed at “attacking”

5. at first i was like damn they are getting away but no

6. That last one had to hurt

7. direct hit

8. Is interrupting a game of night crawlers a warcrime?

9. History books will be talking about avdiivka, like the absolute and complete failure it was

10. Need clustet bombs.

11. Aren’t societies a strange thing.

    For instance in Russia, a 70-year-old kleptocratic leader decides he wants a legacy by subjugating his 44 million neighbours. He orders rich, old men to make it happen, offering them riches if they are successful. They order other less-rich, less-old, men to do the same, and offer them much less reward. Those men turn to other men and do the same. Eventually, hundreds of thousands of young and impoverished individuals are told they’ll receive minor salaries, alongside abstract notions of glory and duty. They pause their lives and jump into the back of a truck. And eventually they find themselves torn up in a ditch, watching all-of-their-future-experiences leak out of ghastly wounds.

12. Obviously being pinned down wasn’t adequate thar’s when they got nailed

13. Lead two had small arms impacts right in front of them, middle group – well they only had a short time remaining to flail about, and yet last two still seemed highly motivated to crawl that way.

14. nowhere to run, nowhere to hid.

    Let them fertilize the soil they die on!

    Slava Ukraini!