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.
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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. . .
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INSERT: ". . .Nataliya Humenyuk, press secretary for the AFU’s Joint Command South, during a television news interview on Jan. 14 claimed that Russian losses of what the Kremlin seemed to consider as being expendable assault troops had been so bloody that better trained and equipped paratroopers and naval infantry were refusing commands to continue the attacks.
- “At present in our sector the number of units of the type “Shtorm-Z” [low-grade Russian units made of up older reservists and former felons, often committed to carry out human wave attacks] is falling and we are seeing more naval infantry and paratroopers.
- But they consider themselves ‘elite troops’ and they don’t want to go into frontal assaults like that,” Humenyuk said.
- In a statement two days later Humenyuk said Russian bombs and artillery had flattened every building in Krynky village but that Ukrainian troops were holding their positions and responding with local counterattacks.
- She claimed that every Russian ground assault against Marine positions was suffering more than 50 percent losses. . ."
Despite Ukrainian officials' claims that the country's marines had gained ground on the eastern side of the river, soldiers and marines told The Times that this was an exaggeration.
- "There are no positions.
- There is no such thing as an observation post or position," Oleksiy, a soldier who fought in Krynky and who only gave his first name, said.
- "It is impossible to gain a foothold there. It's impossible to move equipment there."
- "It's not even a fight for survival," he added.
- "It's a suicide mission."
However, its success in the skies above the Dnipro bolstered Ukraine's difficult position on the ground. Russia appears to be unable to counter Ukraine's drone attacks because of a shortage of electronic warfare capability in the area, the UK's Ministry of Defence said.
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