2023-07-31 16:30:12
A Serghiy it’s hard to breathe. To the four paramedics who lift their 120 kilograms on the stretcher, too. Just 48 hours ago she thought for the first time about the death. In real death. The position that he and two other soldiers were defending in the Donetsk region was hit by the russian fire. The first companion died without saying goodbye. The second did not take long to do so.
Serhiy was left alone unable to stand up. The shrapnel had hit his body, his pelvis was broken. Crawling on the ground for help, he drained his strength, water, and food. Immobile, he spent the first 24 hours at more than 30 degrees. He woke up. He drank piss and chewed daisies with the morning dew. The insects settled on an exhausted body that said goodbye to life, in a war that engulfs the corpses of men who were brothers not so long ago. The second night, the clouds protected him; it started to rain. “For me, it was counter-battery fire. He saved me,” he recalls with oxygen entering his lungs. Weak and hopeless Serghiy heard footsteps coming towards him. He got scared. Will they be Ukrainians? Will they be Russian? “I just wanted to live”confess.
Now his body is in shreds, his arm bandaged and the smile of one who has agreed with death to return another day. Barely 48 hours have passed and together with 18 compatriots travel to a safe hospital after a brief stint in a small medical center in Donbas. The scene is repeated in the more than 900 kilometers of forehead that cross the Ukrainian territory. Rescue, stabilize and transport for specialists to operate on the most serious cases.
Struggle for Bakhmut
Kiev He advances and does not leave his own behind. The same does not happen on the other side of the line. Ukraine He has been raiding trenches for weeks Zaporizhia with troops equipped with Western weapons and night vision equipment. In the same way, the different brigades in charge of clearing the flanks around Bajmut, to pocket the iconic city, they destroy mortar positions, camps and trenches. A kilometric airport for the flies that fly over the decomposing corpses and the limbs torn off in the heat of battle.
Los Russian dead are abandoned in Ukraine. It happened in September and November, when the Ukrainian Army recaptured Bright y Kherson, creating panic in Russian ranks blinded by the lack of night material, and unprotected by insufficient artillery support. And although kyiv exercises considerable information control, the new campaign repeats the strategy that has brought so many successes in the recent past. “This is how we bury our comrades who don’t come home,” sobs a platoon commander from the 72nd Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, looking at the camera, in a recent video.
Behind her, a handful of flowers on a mound of Nerra. A makeshift grave to honor the fallen comrades after an attack with Grad projectiles. “The women call us and ask for explanations as to why we have not kept them alive…”, interrupts another officer. “Fucking commanders, you have to come to your senses! Give us ammunition!” he adds. A visual document showing the abandonment y cruelty of war
Without ammunition
The four dirty and tired men share a bottle and cry for companions who will never come home. desperate screams from the Bakhmut front, where this Russian unit replaced the Wagner paramilitary group. Before finishing the recording, two of them take a handful of bullets from their pockets: “This is how we live, this is all we have. We have two rifles left for 22 people.” And although the russian command has shown that it does not have great appreciation for the lives of its men, the refusal to send ammunition responds in many cases to logistical problems that tighten the screws of, until a year ago, “the world’s second Army”.
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Many understood that he was referring to the chessboard of war, but the change in doctrine has implications beyond the battlefield. The hand caressing Serghiy’s bare chest while whispering in his ear that everything will be fine is just one example. Irina is 22 years old and is a volunteer in a battalion in charge of evacuate soldiers. Because if in war there is a need for infrastructure to move food, gasoline and ammunition… it is even more necessary to transport the wounded and rescue the living from the dead.
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