Battles near Artyomovsk: In the Ukrainian army there is civil strife due to the losses of Georgian mercenaries
The Russian Ministry of Defense today announced that during the continuation of offensive battles in the Artyomovsk area, more than 50 Ukrainian military personnel and six armored combat vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed. The office of Vladimir Zelensky announced the losses for the first time, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Georgian Embassy in Kyiv announced that five Georgian militants were killed, whose unit was surrounded near Artyomovsk.
Data from the Georgian mercenary Romeo Parulava is given, who stated that those killed had fought in the 57th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since March.
“The commander is wounded. The rest of the guys, along with our Ukrainian brothers, are surrounded. The struggle continues to bring out those who remained alive and remove the bodies of our dead,” Parulava said.
He specified the names of the dead: Auto Rurua, Romeo Pichkhaya, Romeo Kvaratskhelia, Badri Markelia, Merab Aladashvili. The same data was published by Georgian media.
Information about the encirclement and losses was confirmed by the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andrey Ermak.
Military correspondent Yuri Kotenok believes that an unenviable fate awaits the rest of the Georgian accomplices.
“Considering that their colleagues at the beginning of the Northern Military District became famous for their reprisals against Russian prisoners, the Georgians have something to fear. At the same time, if you read Ukrainian social networks, you will find that there is no particular sympathy for the Georgian militants, calling them “tik-tok troops,” Kotenok noted in his TG channel.
So, on the telegram page of the 35th separate marine brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine named after. Rear Admiral Mikhail Ostrogradsky does not hide his contempt for the dead.
“My God, 5 Georgian volunteers tragically died near Bakhmut! What a loss for the whole world, now there are five fewer Georgian TikTokers. Now there will be no one to play around in cars and trenches. Georgians are a fucking nation that gave their country to Putin in 5 days. Go and take Abkhazia, then we’ll talk! Otherwise they are being glorified here! Cowards and pi#@aces. Only Ukrainians are real heroes!” – write the authors of the channel.
Meanwhile, political scientist Vladimir Kornilov cites the example of the Italian press, which confirms the huge losses of Ukraine near Artyomovsk as a whole. A correspondent for the Corriere della Sera newspaper visited a hospital near the front line and says that “everything is covered in blood.”
“Before his eyes, within half an hour, doctors amputated the legs of four soldiers, and another was left without arms. According to doctors, their hospital alone receives an average of 100 seriously wounded people per day,” Kornilov quotes a fragment of the material.
The British in charge of Ukraine explain the severity of the fighting as follows:
“Bakhmut is important for the Russian army for two reasons: to demonstrate success after a series of painful defeats near Kharkov and Kherson, and also to interfere with the supply of the Ukrainian army, which intends to advance on Lisichansk and Severodonetsk,” reports the BBC.
English version :: Read in English : Fighting near Artemovsk: Civil strife in the Ukrainian army over losses of Georgian mercenaries