Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Further updates on the situation on the ground in eastern Ukraine illustrate the relentless nature of the fighting. It's all "blood and rubble", says one Russian soldier, with so many Ukrainian drones that they are "like mosquitoes on a lake". ⬇️

https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1912916089622913345

2/ The Russian 'DONTSTOPWAR' Telegram channel has been posting more short updates from Russian soldiers fighting in ruined villages along the frontline in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhanks regions (see below for previous updates):

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1912052101410181443

3/ "Novopavlivka direction: We work between Solone and Volchya. Slowly, we press them to Kotliarivka. We're coming in from the east and south. The terrain is difficult, but we're moving. Kotliarivka is still holding, but it's almost empty with few living souls left.

4/ "They keep pulling up their reserves there, but we're still pushing, and they're having a hard time fighting back, dragging everything they have there.

Preobrazhenka is under control. We went in and cleaned it up.

5/ "Now we are increasing pressure on Troitske and south-west of Bohdanivka. We are trying to enter through the fields where artillery and drones are working on us.

6/ "There are problems with evacuation, there are not enough vehicles, we have to deliver drinking water or candy bars to some positions using copters, which are also fucking nonexistent. They are meeting us head-on.

7/ "Kostiantynivka direction: In the north of Toretsk the fighting is constant. Our assault groups come in and fight to the last as well as [the Ukrainians]. We are trying to squeeze them out from the east through Dyliivka, but they are fighting to the last!

8/ "West of Toretsk they are constantly counterattacking, hitting us with everything they can.

In short, brother, not everything is as sweet as many people think. Please show it to people so they know and don't forget!

9/ "Pokrovka: Good luck. We're sitting in the houses to the east. It's not just that we can't go any further, we can't get out. We're just being knocked out like rats. Every time we go out, we get a minus [a casualty].

10/ "The infantry are pressed against the walls, moving through basements, drones round the clock.

Shevchenko is hell. [The Ukrainians] have drones like mosquitoes on a lake. They fly in all the time. The agricultural firm near Kotlin is simply burned out.

11/ "Everything that was there is burned. Our side didn't even have time to dig in, it was just fucking covered [by artillery] there.

12/ "Dachenske, Lysivka: the guys said there's [a] meat [grinder]. In Lysivka, only the south is holding up well, but the rest of the faggots are no worse. There are no fucking houses, just rubble and blood. Everything is falling apart!

13/ "Novopavlivka: Kotliarivka, Troitske, Bohdanivka.... It's just fucked up! They told us that everything was ours, that Horikhove was almost in our pocket. But in fact, there's meat on the approaches. We're fucked up walking around like blind men. They're flying FPVs non-stop.

14/ "They're flying even on our heels. Our soldiers don't know where they're going or what they're doing. They just go forward. They're told and they go.

15/ "You should have seen how many [Ukrainians] and ours there are per square [meter]. And we don't even have anything to take them out with.

16/ "Lyman, Makiivka: We're barely making it towards Hrekivka [the last Ukrainian-held settlement in the Luhansk region]. With fighting, with losses.

Novomykhailivka is almost ours, but there are already so many corpses there that it's hard to breathe.

17/ "Nove: There's a meat grinder there, [the Ukrainians] have settled in, you can't smoke them out. We're trying, but so far it's not working!

18/ "Bilohorivka [Luhansk]: We're trying to drive them out of the western part of Bila Hora. It's not working. No luck at all. They're sitting there like on a chain. If we don't get through now, they'll roll us back deep.

19/ "And now, unvarnished, this is how it is. No transport. No fucking transport. The wounded are lying in the mud, in trenches, under trees. No one's moving them out. We are not taking our own, because there is nothing to take them with. They just lie there and die.

20/ "A kid was wounded, he was screaming. Then he didn't scream. He lay down. Then he didn't lie down. Communication's down, nobody's talking to anybody. Nobody knows where to go or who's around. Everyone's on their own. Electronic warfare's fucked up. They have unlimited FPVs.

21/ "They cut us up, and we throw sticks at them or shoot shotgun pellets, which they don't have. The worst part is people don't care. We are just bogged down and we have become a number in the reports of the fucking war correspondents."

Source:
🔹 t.me/dontstopwar/19…