Russian forces fire across the border at Ukie forces retreating from the "southern cauldron"
This
video reportedly shows Russian MLRS inside Russia firing salvos at
the Ukie forces retreating from the "southern cauldron".
This video was made near the town of Gukovo, inside
Russia,
and the target(s) are inside the Ukraine:
The
Ukies will complain, of course, and the Russian will deny it, of
course. None of which will prevent the Ukies forced for further
being wiped off.
By
now there is overwhelming evidence that the Ukies forces suffered a
strategic defeat and that they are in retreat more or less
everywhere. Curiously, or not, the western MSM seems unaware of
that as I have seen no reports about this anywhere. This might
change by tomorrow. Or not :-)
Kind
regards,
The
Saker
Breaking news: Marinovka taken & Southern Cauldron sealed!
15:50
- July 16, 2014 - Briefing From the Militia
translated by Gleb Bazov
Marinovka has been taken by the Militia. The punitive forces have been totally encircled. The southern cauldron has been firmly sealed. The Ukrainian forces have only one chance to survive - to surrender to the Militia or to be interned on the territory of Russia.
On other areas of the southern front, the Militia also continues an active offensive. Artillery attacks on the Junta columns are being conducted. The Militia periodically uses Grad systems.
translated by Gleb Bazov
Marinovka has been taken by the Militia. The punitive forces have been totally encircled. The southern cauldron has been firmly sealed. The Ukrainian forces have only one chance to survive - to surrender to the Militia or to be interned on the territory of Russia.
On other areas of the southern front, the Militia also continues an active offensive. Artillery attacks on the Junta columns are being conducted. The Militia periodically uses Grad systems.
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Marinovka just north of the
Russian border
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Google appear to have removed the video
TELEPHONE CALL from ATO Zone - Retreating for 4 Days
Ukrainian
Soldier's Cry for Help: We've Been Retreating for Four
Days
Translated from Russian by Gleb Bazov
Video: A Call from the ATO Zone - We've Been Retreating for Four Dayshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZxCQkhWOhE&feature=youtu.be
Ukrainian Soldier: I am currently the area of Sverdlovsk, Krasno-Partisansk and Izvarino. There are only 400 of us left out of almost 800.
Reporter: Describe the situation. What is happening now? Please tell us.
Ukrainian Soldier: What is happening now? Since 02:00 am we are being pummeled with Grads. Right now, there was mortar shelling that lasted about two hours. We don’t have anything to respond with. All we have are the two wretched SAUs [Note: Self-Propelled Artillery System]. We are sitting here and taking it. We are sustaining losses. There are dead and wounded. Yesterday there were dead; today there are dead. Yesterday there were wounded; today there are wounded.
There are no reinforcements. There is no food. They got us only 800 … 400 litres of water for four hundred men. It’s just a litre a day per person, or what? And that’s how it is here. And you write that everything is fine and we are attacking Sverdlovsk. We are not fucking attacking – we are retreating for the forth day in a row!
There is no order to withdraw. There are killing us like cannon fodder. They know where we are, but we have no idea who it is that we are fighting against! We can’t see them! They are hitting us and picking us off.
And it’s coming from the “neutral” territory – from the territory between Ukraine and the border. The territory between Russian and Ukraine – those two wretched kilometers of the neutral zone.
The fields are burning around us. Very many of our vehicles have been blown up. Fuel trucks are burning. We are retreating into the forest. There is no order to withdraw. We are just sitting there.
Reporter: Who is your commander?
Ukrainian Soldier: Commander of the 72nd Brigade, he gave the order to stand ground. Colonel Grishenko. Out of one company, a full company, only 35 men are left and only one unit of military equipment. And by protocol, there must be 10 units of equipment and 90 men. Can you imagine our losses? And that’s how we fight here.
Reporter: Is there anything else you want to say?
I want to tell the command of our “great” ATO to start acting, even just a little bit. They must withdraw forces from here! I understand that it will give the militants the place and the opportunity to fortify. But they must withdraw the forces! Put everyone into one live chain – everyone close ranks and push along the entire front and move forward together, rather than deploy individual units.
Because … we are not afraid to fight, but we don’t want to become cannot fodder. We are not cannot fodder, we are human beings. And when they put checkmarks and conduct negotiations with terrorists … while we can’t even see them to shoot at them. They airdrop ammunitions that we don’t need in a hundred years. We want to move forward in one joint front to kick them out of our land.
If they are ready to go forward with this and think with their heads, let even one of them come and spend a day and a night here. Let him spend time in the trenches, being shelled with Grad. Let him try it himself to see how “cool” it is. He’ll be drinking a ton of sedatives a day.
And then they tell us they will be paying some kind of compensations. And then they write that we didn’t handle weapons carefully. When we are already in the hospital.
There are almost no helicopters that fly here. There was just one that came in, one in so many days, just to take away the “200s” and the “300s” [Note: KIA/Killed In Action and WIA/Wounded In Action]. Three “200s” – that’s three killed – and eleven wounded. It came yesterday and the day before yesterday. Before that, they did not fly – they were too afraid to fly. Do they think we are not afraid to stand here?
Translated from Russian by Gleb Bazov
Video: A Call from the ATO Zone - We've Been Retreating for Four Dayshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZxCQkhWOhE&feature=youtu.be
Ukrainian Soldier: I am currently the area of Sverdlovsk, Krasno-Partisansk and Izvarino. There are only 400 of us left out of almost 800.
Reporter: Describe the situation. What is happening now? Please tell us.
Ukrainian Soldier: What is happening now? Since 02:00 am we are being pummeled with Grads. Right now, there was mortar shelling that lasted about two hours. We don’t have anything to respond with. All we have are the two wretched SAUs [Note: Self-Propelled Artillery System]. We are sitting here and taking it. We are sustaining losses. There are dead and wounded. Yesterday there were dead; today there are dead. Yesterday there were wounded; today there are wounded.
There are no reinforcements. There is no food. They got us only 800 … 400 litres of water for four hundred men. It’s just a litre a day per person, or what? And that’s how it is here. And you write that everything is fine and we are attacking Sverdlovsk. We are not fucking attacking – we are retreating for the forth day in a row!
There is no order to withdraw. There are killing us like cannon fodder. They know where we are, but we have no idea who it is that we are fighting against! We can’t see them! They are hitting us and picking us off.
And it’s coming from the “neutral” territory – from the territory between Ukraine and the border. The territory between Russian and Ukraine – those two wretched kilometers of the neutral zone.
The fields are burning around us. Very many of our vehicles have been blown up. Fuel trucks are burning. We are retreating into the forest. There is no order to withdraw. We are just sitting there.
Reporter: Who is your commander?
Ukrainian Soldier: Commander of the 72nd Brigade, he gave the order to stand ground. Colonel Grishenko. Out of one company, a full company, only 35 men are left and only one unit of military equipment. And by protocol, there must be 10 units of equipment and 90 men. Can you imagine our losses? And that’s how we fight here.
Reporter: Is there anything else you want to say?
I want to tell the command of our “great” ATO to start acting, even just a little bit. They must withdraw forces from here! I understand that it will give the militants the place and the opportunity to fortify. But they must withdraw the forces! Put everyone into one live chain – everyone close ranks and push along the entire front and move forward together, rather than deploy individual units.
Because … we are not afraid to fight, but we don’t want to become cannot fodder. We are not cannot fodder, we are human beings. And when they put checkmarks and conduct negotiations with terrorists … while we can’t even see them to shoot at them. They airdrop ammunitions that we don’t need in a hundred years. We want to move forward in one joint front to kick them out of our land.
If they are ready to go forward with this and think with their heads, let even one of them come and spend a day and a night here. Let him spend time in the trenches, being shelled with Grad. Let him try it himself to see how “cool” it is. He’ll be drinking a ton of sedatives a day.
And then they tell us they will be paying some kind of compensations. And then they write that we didn’t handle weapons carefully. When we are already in the hospital.
There are almost no helicopters that fly here. There was just one that came in, one in so many days, just to take away the “200s” and the “300s” [Note: KIA/Killed In Action and WIA/Wounded In Action]. Three “200s” – that’s three killed – and eleven wounded. It came yesterday and the day before yesterday. Before that, they did not fly – they were too afraid to fly. Do they think we are not afraid to stand here?
Donetsk, Luhansk fighters launch offensive on Ukraine’s National Guard
The offensive was launched at 5am local time on Wednesday from the settlement of Stepanovka in the Donetsk Region
16
July, 2014
KIEV,
July 16 /ITAR-TASS/. Self-defense fighters of the self-proclaimed
Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics have launched an offensive
on the Ukrainian National Guard forces in eastern Donetsk Region, the
National Guard’s website said on Wednesday.
The
offensive was launched “at 5am (local time) today from the
settlement of Stepanovka (the Donetsk Region),” the Ukrainian
National Guard press office reported.
“Tank
and mortar strikes were delivered against the Ukrainian National
Guard’s checkpoint located near Marinovka (the Donetsk Region). The
shelling continued for an hour. The National Guard repelled the
attack,” the report said.
A
battle is currently underway in the area of the settlement of Tarany.
Self-defense fighters are attacking from the settlements of
Saur-Mogila and Stepanovka, using mortar and tank fire against the
Ukrainian military’s positions, the report said.
Four
Ukrainian National Guard soldiers have been wounded, the report said.
Ukrainian
army leaves positions near Luhansk
On
Tuesday, the militia shelled a Grad rocket battery in the Donetsk
Region. Combat actions and “artillery duels” continued also in
the vicinity of the Snezhnoye town and the Dmitrovka settlement.
The
southeast Ukraine militia has tanks, combat aircraft multiple launch
rocket systems and artillery guns in its arsenal. The self-defense
fighters say they have seized all these armaments in battles against
the Ukrainian military.
The
Donetsk defenders earlier said they had recommissioned a World War II
tank that had long stood as a monument at a war memorial.
The
parliament of the newly created Union of the Donetsk and Luhansk
Republics on Tuesday declared as illegal all armed Ukrainian
formations staying on their territories and said that “corresponding
measures would be taken” against them.
Donetsk
People’s Republic Defense Minister Igor Strelkov earlier said that
the self-defense militia was switching to a contractual basis and
would now “receive about $500-800 in money allowance.” Union
Parliament Chairman Oleg Tsaryov said the self-defense forces had
enough strength to contain the Ukrainian military.
Up
to 25,000 Ukrainian refugees stay in Russia’s temporary asylums
An
influx of people fleeing the combat area in Ukraine to Russia is
growing. Almost 25,000 Ukrainian refugees are staying in temporary
accommodation centers in Russian regions, Russian Emergencies
Ministry spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky told ITAR-TASS on
Wednesday.
Overall,
Russia has set up 367 temporary refugee camps, he said.
Pro-Kiev
troops and local militias in the southeastern Ukrainian Donetsk and
Luhansk regions are involved in fierce clashes as the Ukrainian armed
forces are conducting a military operation to regain control over the
breakaway regions, which on May 11 proclaimed their independence at
local referendums.
During
the military operation, conducted since mid-April, Kiev has used
armored vehicles, heavy artillery and attack aviation. According to
Ukraine’s Health Ministry, 478 civilians have been killed and 1,392
wounded in it. Many buildings have been destroyed and tens of
thousands of people have had to flee Ukraine’s embattled
south-east.
The
Ukrainian army has lost 258 soldiers and another 922 have been
wounded in Kiev’s punitive operation in Ukraine’s embattled
Southeast, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council
spokesperson Andrei Lysenko said on Tuesday.
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