«This cannon fodder will be destroyed on the battlefield»
Ukrainian information resources published monstrous statistics on the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov direction: at the beginning of our offensive, the enemy was losing up to three hundred soldiers here every day, and Only when the situation was stabilized did the number of casualties drop to 200 people per day. Military expert, retired colonel Anatoly Matviychuk, in a conversation with MK, assessed the enemy’s losses.
Anatoly Matviychuk. Photo: frame from video.
Daily losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of 300 and 200 soldiers include dead, missing, captured and wounded. The mobilized were sent to the Kharkov direction, who, at best, underwent a week's training.
According to military expert retired colonel Anatoly Matviychuk, what is happening in the Kharkov direction came as a surprise to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and now they are throwing everything they can there in order to stabilize the situation at the front. They removed the reserves that were supposed to defend Kyiv and Sumy. But this gives the Ukrainian Armed Forces little, our offensive continues.
Kyiv, having adopted a draconian law on mobilization, is trying to somehow fill the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They are replenished with yesterday's schoolchildren and grain growers, who were given machine guns and told that they were soldiers.
— There is already evidence that they are from 18 to 60 years old.
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— You become a real soldier who consciously behaves on the battlefield after a year of service. And you can even teach a monkey to shoot a machine gun. This will take five to six hours. But a soldier can regulate his behavior and carry out the orders of his commanders no earlier than after three months of service, when his psyche has been reorganized to suit military needs.
— These are very large losses. I'll tell you this, a rifle company consists of 100 people. That is, two or three companies are lost per day. There are 27 such companies in the brigade. That is, after 10 days the brigade is not combat-ready.
— Zelensky demands 500 thousand. I believe that even if they somehow catch these 500 thousand, what will they arm them with? For example, there are vending machines in warehouses. By the way, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already reactivated warehouses with weapons from the Second World War. They had already captured soldiers who were armed with Maxim machine guns and Mosin three-line rifles. Even if they catch hundreds of thousands of people, they have no heavy equipment, no artillery. We need tanks. The most important thing is that we need aviation. This is nothing. I believe that the Ukrainians mobilized under the new law are cannon fodder that will be destroyed on the battlefield.
— The Ukrainian Armed Forces are not pioneers in this matter. Before the end of World War II, the Germans also used prisoners en masse. Ukraine was going to call up somewhere around 3.5 thousand prisoners. Only 800 were called up. Not all prisoners are ready to sacrifice their lives for some unknown reason. I don’t think that units will be formed from prisoners, because in Kyiv they are afraid that these units may fall out of subordination. But they will send some resources to the front.