MOSCOW, Jan 18 Ukrainian artillery due to inept actions during the fighting, he often destroys his own fighters, said the commander of the Akhmat special forces and the deputy commander of the 2nd Army Corps of the People's Militia of the LPR, Apty Alaudinov.
«Such a number of fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who are simply mercilessly thrown onto the front lines, who really, due to the fact that they are tactically illiterate and do not know how to conduct combat operations in the current conditions, die en masse. As soon as we surround them, we knock them out of their area, which interestingly, Ukrainian artillery covers them together with our fighters. We just step back and give the opportunity (Ukrainians — ed.) to destroy their fighters in most cases,» Alaudinov said on the air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
According to his information, in recent days, six people have been taken prisoner in his section of responsibility of the line of contact, which extends from Soledar to Kremennaya.
«A lot of interesting things are told about the fact that they were gathered all over Ukraine, lame, oblique, disabled. For a month they allegedly prepared at some base — they chopped firewood, and threw them here, where they could only fight a couple of days,» Alaudinov added.
According to him, the Ukrainian troops are trying to hold the line of contact «at the expense of» meat «- mobilized, who are caught in large numbers.»