Captain Ahab wrote:
Sigurno ce se pojaviti i novi snimci zarobljenih i mrtvih, jer je gotovo nemoguce da se par hiljada ljudi izvuce iz takvog okruzenja bez zrtava, ali za sada izgleda da povlacenje tece dosta uspjesno s obzirom na okolnosti. Mnogo bolje nego iz Ilovaiska uostalom...
Evo prvih izvestaja o gubitcima i hororu povlacenja. Ovo je izgleda iz pokusaja proboja pre dogovora za povlacenje.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/world ... -news&_r=2
My midday on Wednesday, limping and exhausted soldiers began showing up on the Ukrainian side describing a harrowing ordeal that began with a surprise 1 a.m. order to retreat.
“Many trucks left and only a few arrived,” said one soldier, who offered only his rank, sergeant, and first name, Volodomyr, as he knelt on the sidewalk smoking. “A third of us made it, at most.”
Others said at least a majority of the soldiers that set off in a column of about 100 trucks had managed to exit the encirclement, many straggling out on foot after their vehicles were blown up.
The order to retreat was kept secret until the last minute, and soldiers were told to prepare in 10 minutes and pile into the beds of troop transport trucks, said Albert Sardaryen, a 22-year-old medic who made the journey.
The trucks lined up on the edge of town, Mr. Sardaryen said, while tanks and tracked vehicles formed lines on either side to try to shield the soldiers for the drive through the fields, rather than over a mined main road.
The fighting started immediately, he said, and trucks started breaking down and colliding in the dark while driving without headlights. By dawn, the column was strung out on the plain and taking fire from all sides.
“They were shooting with tanks, rocket propelled grenades and sniper rifles,” and firing at the disintegrating column with rockets, he said. Dead and wounded soldiers were left on the snowy field, as there were too many to carry after the trucks were hit.
“We stabilized them, applied tourniquets, gave them pain killers and tried to put them in a place with better cover,” he said of the wounded. Later, a Ukrainian unit from outside the encirclement drove in to try to retrieve the wounded, he said.
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Mr. Sardaryen ran the final four miles or so. Many of the soldiers who made it out did so on foot, though some trucks made it through, he said.
Oleksandr I. Bogunov, an army private, said the order came to carry only what would be useful for the fight on the way out, and leave all other ammunition and weaponry behind.
I Ukrajinski mediji pocinju govoriti o gubitcima ljudstva i tenkova
http://112.ua/mnenie/o-rasstrele-kolonn ... 92196.html
A sto se tice Ilovaiska i katastrofe koja se desila tamo izgleda da su Prorusi prvo pustili da redovna vojska Ukrajine izadje iz okruzenja ali samo sa licnim oruzjem (nista teze od mitraljeza) a da su "privatni bataljoni" i borci desnog sektora pokusali da se probiju sa svojim transporterima i celokupnim naoruzanjem ali Prorusi su bili spremni sa tenkovima i artiljerijom i tu su im naneli velike gubitke.