Russian marines and paratroopers are refusing to launch certain types of assaults due to concerns over the huge losses other troops are suffering, a Ukrainian official said, per the Kyiv Post.

Nataliya Humenyuk, press secretary for the AFU’s Joint Command South, said that the soldiers considered “themselves ‘elite troops’” and did not “want to go into frontal assaults” typically carried out by former felons and reservists, the outlet reported.

Over the course of the Russian invasion, it has become increasingly reliant on high-risk frontal assaults. It involves waves of attacks that probe Ukrainian positions and seize small portions of territory but cost a huge loss of life.

The Wagner leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a mysterious plane explosion after leading a failed mutiny in June, described the tactic as a “meat grinder.”

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    That’s lemmy.ml aka lemmy.grad or hexbear…since lemmy.grad and hexbear where defederated, it seems all the tankies have jumped over to it now. Hopefully it gets defenderated soon, cause the level of CCP and Russian apologist is astounding.

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      I’d nearly stop using it until they are defederated because they are everywhere now ruining the vibe.

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        Yeah it’s really weird seeing them pop up and support Russia or they get pissed when Taiwan is posted about and how it belongs to china

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      Yea better watch out for the judeo-bolshevism and support western imperialism and fascists.

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        Point to Western fascists please and tell me how they are worse than the authoritarian pricks in charge of Russia and China.

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            Any particular reason everything is black and white that might be relevant here?

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            • Adolf Heusinger (1897 – 1982)
            • Hans Speidel (1897 - 1984)
            • Johannes Steinhoff (1913 - 1994)
            • Franz’Joseph Schulze (1918 - 2005)
            • Ernst Ferber (1914 - 1998)
            • Karl Schnell (1915 – 2013)
            • Johann von Kielmansegg (1906 – 2006)
            • Ferdinand Maria von Senger und Etterlin (1923-1987)

            I love how these are all from yesteryear and just the ones with a Nazi allegiance. You do realize this is not the dunk you think it is, right, boot licker? This literally highlights what NATO is not in present day. 😂