KHERSON, October 1 – Novosti. Ukrainian troops in the Kherson direction are suffering heavy losses, according to a recording of radio interception of negotiations, which was at the disposal of Novosti
The conversations of the soldiers of the 5th mechanized company of the 53rd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were intercepted near the village of Pravdino, at the very border of the Kherson and Nikolaev regions. There are many obscene words in the original, in quotes they are replaced by synonyms in brackets.
“Will there be support at all? They ask me. There are no people, communications, too, cartridges <…> (not enough),” one of the servicemen says. A colleague answers him: “Where are all the others? <…> (who) knows. If we stay overnight, in the morning we will be fired again <…>. We need some kind of support in the morning or at night. Or we take 300 (wounded) heavy ones, because they won’t survive, and we ourselves are here <…> (won’t) survive the night, and we go back. ready, to the pool, the main thing is that ours do not <…> (fire at)”.
“There will be no evacuation yet,” says another fighter.
In the second fragment, a Ukrainian soldier shouts excitedly: “Don’t shoot, we’re moving back, don’t shoot, we’re moving back on the right flank!”
In the third episode, the soldiers talk about a large number of dead and wounded, including heavy ones, they say that there is not enough ammunition, and they constantly ask where the reinforcements are.
“I called Odinets, Odinets – a shell shock, Kot – three hundred, I don’t know, a shell shock, or a bullet, or shrapnel. He said that the three hundredths – he, the Cat and someone else from the five. And someone from the fourth company is also with him , this is all that is known so far,” one of the servicemen says. His comrade replies that there is no ammunition and asks for support.
First fighter: “They have 200, 300, <…> (very many). They <…> (were beaten).” The second: “Odinets, everything that depends on our company, I do everything. The rest is <…> (guilty) authorities.” And again the question about reinforcements follows, which is still not there: “Where is this third baht, support, so to speak?”
Since the end of August, Ukrainian troops have been attempting a counteroffensive in the Kherson-Nikolaev direction. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that these attacks were successfully repelled.
