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ChrisO_wiki

@ChrisO_wiki

Oct 19 • 14 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

1/ The Russian warblogger Maxim Kalashnikov says that on parts of the front line, the ratio of killed and wounded is "almost 1:1 already". His friend Yuri Yevich blames Ukrainian drones for preventing evacuations at any time of the day or night. ⬇️

2/ In a video interview, Kalashnikov and Yevich discuss what Kalashnikov calls "a terrible problem":

3/ "I judge by what they write about evacuations and medical losses. That is, our wounded are not being transported for objective reasons and are forced to wait for help, sometimes for days, while wounded. It is very, very difficult to evacuate them.

4/ "And they say that now our medical losses are not 1:3. It's not three wounded for every one killed, but almost 1:1 already."

Yevich agrees, and comments: "I used to scare our listeners when I was recording my broadcasts, saying, "The situation is seriously frightening."

5/ "But now I'm trying to calm them down, because the situation is so frightening that if we start talking about it like that, especially with emotion, our listeners will completely lose all logic and the ability to take action, you know what that's like?"

6/ He claims that "Finland, Moldova, and Poland are attacking us with regular troops, their entire armies, not just PMC [mercenary] units, while Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan are conducting exercises led by British intelligence against Russia."

7/ "They'll attack us, Japan, NATO, when they launch ballistic missiles en masse, not just one at a time like now. When they launch strikes with tens of thousands of Tomahawks, like they did against Yugoslavia.

8/ "And to top it all off, they'll use nuclear weapons. That's when the losses will be truly impressive."

Having ensured that his listeners should now be in a calm state of mind, he explains why the medical situation is so bad:

9/ "Saving the life of a wounded man on the battlefield, only 15% is medical care. [The rest is] 85% evacuation, ... So, you cut him, stopped the bleeding, insulated the dugouts, set up IVs. Then what?

10/ "You can't bring the whole ward, the whole hospital with you to the battlefield, and you can't bring doctors. And there, the enemies will destroy everything, and they will kill you all. It's obvious. So, you need to retreat to the rear.

11/ "So, a dramatic development, I don't know, epoch-making, radical – drones...

In many places now you can't even drive 15 kilometers to the front line, because any vehicle will be immediately destroyed. Carrying someone out on foot isn't even funny.

12/ "A group of people slowly carrying a wounded person is the most convenient target, who will also be destroyed on the spot. Previously, we would go in at dusk, leave at dawn, and all actions were carried out at sunset.

13/ "Well, the enemy is not stupid; he concentrates all his drone activity during these periods of time, and due to the number of drones and the attentiveness of the observers, who mostly rest during the remainder of the time,…

14/ …he has also eliminated the possibility of calm logistics during this time." /end

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