The video showed a dispute between a Ukrainian soldiers and officers. The soldier came to argue with his commanders, speaking on behalf of the whole unit which refused to go the front lines.
The exact location was not revealed but the unit was likely deployed in the eastern region of Kherson or Zaporozhie.
The emotional conversation of the Ukrainian servicemen confirmed the deplorable situation in the Ukrainian Army. The officers revealed huge losses of several Ukrainian units. The video confirmed that a lot of Ukrainian units were completely destroyed by Russian forces.
The AFU have already suffered heavy losses in various regions, including during the retreat of Russian forces from the western bank of the Dnieper river, and they are still losing a lot of soldiers daily trying to hold the positions. Ukrainian soldiers are forced to stay on their positions because the deserters are prisoned or shot dead by their own comrades from nationalist battalions.
All the attempts of the Kiev regime to hide the real losses and downplay them tenfold are doomed.
Literal translation of the conversation:
Soldier: “We went on the offensive, came out of there alive and thank God that we came out! Many guys died. And now they bring back to the same “ass” and back “for meat.” If you refuse – you will “sit down” (will go to jail)! I speak for everyone, we are a collective, I speak for everyone.”
Officer: “In short, I will tell you do not try to prove me anything. There are no more infantry companies, NO! In my 7th company only 18 men left alive, * * * 18!!! * * * . In the 8th company 32 people left * * * on their position. In the 9th company 41 left * * * . That’s why, you are being deployed there! Not because someone has nothing to do! Because there are positions, there is an appointed defense zone and it must be defended!”
Soldier: “There is no even a half of our unit left, how to defend it?”
Officer: “So understand me * * *, I didn’t make it up!”
Soldier: “So let’s arrange it!! When we are needed?”
Officer: “How to discuss it, now it is needed!”
Soldier: “Yeah, right now * * * * *! And now I need to see a child and no one is trying to understand me…”
Officer: “I also have three children at home and unlike me, you’re at home, hiding from hostilities.”
Soldier: “How long have we been at home? Two weeks? And they didn’t do anything…”
Another officer: “I didn’t even let them shoot, my fault…”
Officer: “So you were all sitting, the eggs scratched because you’re so comfortable!”
Soldier: “Yes, and what? We are accustomed to the army.. and what.. are we in the army or where? In the army, you do nothing without an order?”
Another officer: “The command was given to you to go and you’re not going..”
Officer: “Well, go, *****!”
Soldier: “Well, go, *****! Wow!!”
Another officer: “So wait, you want not to obay to the order or obey as you wish, right?”
Officer: “And get a hundred!” (note: salary of soldiers of the AFU is 100 thousand hryvnia per month).
Soldier: “A hundred?? So let’s swap, you’ll go there!”
Another officer: “Where are you from?
Soldier: “Nikopol!”
Another officer: “Nikopol?! Look, I have a brother, he was wounded, shelling on every day, now you will sit down, we will move away…”
Soldier: “So what?”
Another officer: “and then what? We will be defeated, but you don’t care!”
Soldier: “I care! If I didn’t care, I wouldn’t have come here!”
Officer: “Did you come as a volunteer?”
Soldier: “Yes, of course! On February 25, I was already at the front.”
Another officer: “I came on Feb 24!”
Soldier: “I congratulate you!”
Officer: “You came as a volunteer!”
Soldier: “You know about anyone there.”
0Officer: “There where is it?”
Soldier: “In the military enlistment office!”
Officer: “In which military enlistment office?”
Soldier: “In Nikopol, where I live!”
Officer: “And what happened in Nikopol?”
Soldier: “Nothing happened.”
Officer: “Where did you such a cool guy, was sitting, in what terrible trenches?? Tell me. A locality?”
Soldier: “Pyatikhatki.”
Officer: “Pyatikhatki! Where were you sitting there? In Pyatikhatki? I’ll tell you! My company made 12 offensives and was defeated ****… I have 21 out of 286 people left after the offensives! To whom do you * * * * * tell your stories?! You went once and were beaten, so what?”
Another soldier: “Criminal order!”
Officer: “What criminal order?… Hastily Kherson was released, so what is the crime?”
Soldier: “Since there is such a conversation, then come on.. everybody.. hastily and that’s it!”
Officer: “So what criminal order?? Have you been killed?”
Another soldier: “How many people died…”
Officer: “How many died? Well, tell me! How many have died at all since that offensive?”
Another soldier: “No one will tell the truth.”
Officer: “I’ll tell you, 21 people!”
Another soldier: “Come on!! We had ten of ours killed. Before our eyes, the guys were exploding! We were burying them.”
Officer: “10, 12..!”
Another soldier: “We don’t see everything.”
Officer: “And why were they killed, can you explain?”
Another soldier: “No!”
Officer: “And I’ll tell you: because half of you ran back * * * *, I watched from the drone * * * *…”
Another soldier: “We ran back cause we were ordered…”
Officer: “Don’t “sing” to me, I don’t know who gave the command there, I sat with the company and looked at you..”
Another soldier: “The commander gave us the command to “withdraw”!”
Officer: “Congratulations! What’s my fault?”
Another soldier: “And what is our fault? 8 out of 11 tanks were destroyed and from the commander came the command “withdrawal” and we began to depart. What is our fault? We retreated!”
Officer: “Retreated! So the right command? They didn’t smash you!”
Another soldier: “And how many died.. How much hasn’t retreated..”
Officer: “How many didn’t retreated? I will tell you, today more soldiers died than in your * * * * offensive. And today I have gathered a lot of people by “spare parts”, and you are sitting here, pisspants * * * *!”
Another soldier: “Let us be cowards!”
