MOSCOW, 23 Aug. The 82nd Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was recently thrown into battle in the Zaporozhye direction, has already suffered greatly, Oleg Soskin, a former adviser to Leonid Kuchma, said in a YouTube blog.
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» 82nd Brigade now suffers serious losses. There was another brigade there before it, it also lost a lot,” the expert said.
According to him, the last reserves of the Ukrainian army ran into a well-fortified Russian citadel on the southern front and could not survive the high-intensity clashes.
The former adviser to Kuchma also recalled that the Kiev government specifically classified information about losses in order to hide the catastrophe, which led to the summer counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. and, first of all, in the Zaporozhye direction, throwing into battle brigades trained by the North Atlantic Alliance and armed with Western equipment.
Vladimir Putin on July 21 noted that the enemy had no results, and Western curators were clearly disappointed with the course of the «counterattack.» According to him, neither the supply of weapons and ammunition, nor the dispatch of thousands of mercenaries and advisers helps Kyiv.