Russia sending ‘waves’ of soldiers in battle for Avdiivka: “Some die, others keep on coming. It’s like a zombie movie.”

by marketrent

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  1. Russia has switched tactics after losing hundreds of armoured vehicles in failed efforts to encircle Avdiivka:

    >“The fields are just littered with corpses,” Oleksandr, a deputy of a Ukrainian battalion in the 47th mechanised brigade, told AFP. “They are trying to exhaust our lines with constant waves of attacks.”

    >Moscow has “switched to infantry tactics,” said Oleksandr — “advancing solely at the expense of human resources.”

    >Russian soldiers typically advance at night, in groups of five to seven fighters, [call-sign] Trauma told AFP.

    >“Then early in the morning, they launch their attack.”

    >Ukraine responds with a barrage of heavy weaponry — artillery, mortars, grenades, drones and cannons fired from US-supplied Bradley Fighting Vehicles.

    >“Some die, others keep on coming. It’s like a zombie movie,” Trauma added.

  2. Russians must be very susceptible to the sunk-cost fallacy, and the Kremlin knows it. The more casualties Russia suffers, the more that Russian people are told that it must continue – otherwise Russians will have ‘died in vain’.

    It’s a suicide pact in Russia between the people and their government, but only the common people are at risk of death.

  5. It’s the Battle of Stalingrad all over again… except this time they aren’t defending Russia against Hitler. They’re using the tactic as an invading force.

    The disregard for human life is appalling, and all for a *vanity project.*

  6. And yet the zombie russian population just keeps taking it on the chin.

  7. Hard times, but all rats + armor destroyed in this turkey shoot now won’t be in the way in future offense from Ukraine

  9. So what’s the goal for an individual soldier? Go and take that area. If you die, you die. If you retreat, you die. If you make it, you also die.

  11. Someone who blindly follows a crowd—maybe even toward catastrophe—is called a lemming.

  13. Is Avdiivka the bahkmut? Seen a lot of of news regarding heavy russian losses in this region

  14. We know what it thinks of it’s brave soldiers. It sources them from prisons after all.
    They are and always will just be fodder for their leaders to expend.

    Why anyone would remain blind to this is beyond me.

    Until Russia has a leadership to be proud pf it has nothing worth fighting for.

  15. Soon putin “Operation completed we have de-nazie” ukraine, wanna do some trade deals?

  16. How else will they know when the Ukrainians have run out of ammunition?

  17. I think it’s time for napalm, the closest thing to a proper burial a Russian corpse can enjoy.

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