“According to a well-regarded Ukrainian correspondent who writes under the pseudonym “Nikolaev Vanek,” the 83rd Airborne Brigade has retreated from Vovchansk after a costly three-week deployment.
“The entire 83rd Airborne Brigade is urgently withdrawn to the rear to restore combat capability,” Vanek wrote. “There are too many casualties, they can’t fight, there are too many 500s.”
In Russian military parlance, a “code 500” is a soldier who refuses to fight.
If confirmed, it’s a stinging loss for the new Russian northern grouping of forces, which includes around seven regiments and brigades. And Russian losses in Vovchansk could get a lot worse, as the survivors of an entire battalion—that’s hundreds of troops—have been trapped in a chemical plant in central Vovchansk for two weeks.”
CoreyDenvers on
If they didn’t want to get lost, why didn’t they stay at home?
Silly Russians…
_EnFlaMEd on
Their happiest days look like my worst.
Intransigient on
Next time, hopefully they’ll just stay at home in Ruzzia and do their 500 resistance there. 🤔
Odd_Opportunity_3531 on
The airborne brigade that isn’t doing any parachuting
After quickly reading through the comments, there seemed to be no good explanation for the deletion.
It makes me wonder if the russia bots were so angered by the comments they unleashed their alts to mass report the post until the automod eventually removed it.
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“According to a well-regarded Ukrainian correspondent who writes under the pseudonym “Nikolaev Vanek,” the 83rd Airborne Brigade has retreated from Vovchansk after a costly three-week deployment.
“The entire 83rd Airborne Brigade is urgently withdrawn to the rear to restore combat capability,” Vanek wrote. “There are too many casualties, they can’t fight, there are too many 500s.”
In Russian military parlance, a “code 500” is a soldier who refuses to fight.
If confirmed, it’s a stinging loss for the new Russian northern grouping of forces, which includes around seven regiments and brigades. And Russian losses in Vovchansk could get a lot worse, as the survivors of an entire battalion—that’s hundreds of troops—have been trapped in a chemical plant in central Vovchansk for two weeks.”
If they didn’t want to get lost, why didn’t they stay at home?
Silly Russians…
Their happiest days look like my worst.
Next time, hopefully they’ll just stay at home in Ruzzia and do their 500 resistance there. 🤔
The airborne brigade that isn’t doing any parachuting
For some reason [this same post](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1dq41b6/the_russians_may_have_lost_an_entire_airborne/) was deleted by r/UkraineWarVideoReport 10 hours ago.
After quickly reading through the comments, there seemed to be no good explanation for the deletion.
It makes me wonder if the russia bots were so angered by the comments they unleashed their alts to mass report the post until the automod eventually removed it.
Time for this classic: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSzAnNU4u28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSzAnNU4u28)
More proof that the Russian military is undisciplined and poorly managed
So much for having one of the largest militaries in the world