It's hard to assess in real time boastful claims of enemy losses made by either side during a war. It's rare that such a claim gets confirmed by the other side - but now this has happened, with Ukraine's claims that it has decimated Russian presence on the Zmeiny island (1/)
While official RU channels are silent on the topic, two mercenary-linked telegram channels now admit that Ukraine destroyed critical military infrastructure (and spetznaz forces) on the island - including this MI-8 Russian helicopter
As Wagner's channel now confirms, in addition to the MI-8 (no survivors) + the evacuation Spetsnaz team, Ukraine destroyed several Tor-M2 anti-aircraft systems, two Raptor cutters, RU bases and ships bringing additional weapons to the island.
Somewhat counter-intuitively, the Wagner/mercenary telegram channels are much more truthful than Russian state-run (dis)information channels, as they don't feel they need to defend poor RU military decisions, and are often critical of top brass (which doesn't make them likeable)
Oh, I had missed that Russia's army spokesman had claimed this morning the MI-8 helicopter was Ukrainian and had been shot by Russian forces. Now contradicted by the Russian mercs. ria.ru/20220508/zmein…
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