David Axe continued his delusional accounting of the Ukraine war in Forbes. His latest piece explains recent events in Avdiivka.
The brave 110th Brigade has been defending Avdiivka since 2014. It defended the city alone against two Russian field armies. Ukraine did all it could to help them by reinforcing the area of the city with two new brigades. But it wasn't enough.
The 2000 soldiers of the 110th brigade are all drone operators who defend the city center against the Russians. They never get any rest or relief. In January alone, they inflicted 13,000 casualties on the Russians. One ukrainian brigade managed to wipe out the equivelent of six brigades on the Russian side in one month!
But then the unexpected happened. There was bad weather. The Ukrainians couldn't use their drones and the sneaky russians snuck into the city. They simply bypassed the Ukrainians and went into the city by their sneaky fighting techniques.
When the Ukrainians realized they had been out-sneaked, all the grandfathers in the city picked up weapons to go to the frontline trenches. The grandfathers fought to the last man sometimes in houses that burned down around them. Because Ukrainians would rather die than ever retreat.
The Ukrainians lost because they didn't have enough weapons and ammunition because the republicans didn't give them weapons and ammunition. Axe describes a situation from back on December 17th where the Russians were just going to walk into Avdiivka from the south because the Ukrainians had not a single bit of ammunition to stop them. The Russians however hit a mine and were stopped. But that sort of luck could not hold forever.
So remember, Ukrainians never retreat in battle and never lose. They only suffer setbacks due to:
1) Weather
2) Russian human wave tactics which involve two entire field armies being thrown against a single brigade
3) Being entirely out of ammunition due to republicans to a point where unarmed grandfathers are sent to be burned alive defending houses.
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