Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ A Russian platoon commander recounts on video how he is walking 28 km between frontline and rear positions due to Ukrainian drones suppressing vehicle movements. He says his unit has lost 37 out of 40 men in only two weeks of assault operations. ⬇️

2/ In the video, a Russian soldier can be seen walking across what appears to be open ground, likely in eastern or southern Ukraine. It's clearly very hot – "today it's unbearable". (Temperatures in the region are currently up to 34°C (94F).)

3/ He says; "I went to the rear again… I, fuck! Yes, I'm a platoon commander, I’m going because I don’t have any fighters. We have two guys at the very front pulling out 200s [dead bodies]. Now I have to go to the rear, and the command [post]."

4/ The man says that he has to walk 28 kilometers to get to the rear, highlighting how Ukrainian drones are successfully suppressing Russian vehicle movements for a long way behind the front line (see the thread below for more on this)

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1904462995716989045

5/ He went to the front line to deliver essential supplies, but was walking back on his own because he was only one of three men – out of 40 – who were left in his unit after a series of disastrous assaults against Ukrainian positions.

6/ "On the first of May they stormed [carried out an assault] and on the second I was hit – 300 [wounded] – by shrapnel, a kamikaze [drone] attacked me. A fragment hit my left forearm. It's nothing, it's normal. I didn't even try to delay. I continue to work.

7/ “Well, probably by the 15th we had run out of fighters. Out of forty people, there were eight of us, then three of us remained ...

Of course, they send us reinforcements. Now they are ahead, they reach us, we collect more people. Something like that. Let's go." /end

Source:
t.me/ne_zhdi_novost…