The
Washington Post did a story were seven Ukrainian soldiers explain what happened in the final days at Avdiivka. Its about as bad and useless as one would expect. Every single soldier interviewed was of course an Azov bro from 3rd Assault Brigade.
"Major"
Major was in a building in the city and was nearly captured by the Russians. But as he was getting ready for the end, other Ukrainians broke into the room and he leaped out of a window.
They could have won but they had nothing to fight with. They needed air cover and artillery support.
It was just a convoy of people. A convoy of the best men ever. And in front of our eyes, this convoy was destroyed by artillery.
"Schultz"
He was fighting in the city with "Major". But they faced "wave after wave" of Russians. He personally took out the driver of a Russian vehicle with an RPG.
"Kavkaz"
This guy was in the chemical plant. He said a quarter of the Russian troops were "just confused" but at the same time only a little more than half of the Azov Brigade had any combat experience.
He helped other soldiers to escape the chemical plant in his Toyota Hilux pickup truck. The windshield was eventually broken though. He believes that they should have ordered the evacuation of the relatively safe fortress that was the chemical plant much earlier.
"Shved"
Shved is 44 years old. He describes himself as a "marksman" who lost count of the Russians he killed in the battle after killing ten of them. He said the equipment and military training of the Russians was not consistent. Brave Shved finally was ordered to leave the battlefield after his third concussion. He then got a fourth concession being driven away from the city.
"Bandit"
Bandit was in his first battle. He is a canadian machine gunner.
he set up in a one-story house and watched as Russia sent in inexperienced troops in waves each morning, afternoon and evening. They appeared to be in their 40s or 50s, with no protective vests or helmets.
He mowed them down obviously. Because russians.
He retreated from the city on foot while cluster munitions rained down around him and the other soldiers. Then the Russians tried to kill him with white phosphorus shells but missed.
"Fedya"
He was at the command post in the chemical plant. He described his orders when he arrived as:
He was tasked with briefing arriving infantry troops and conducting reconnaissance missions to scope out fallback locations. He was also overseeing operations for troops positioned in a large trench near the plant.
When the order came to retreat, he fled the city in an "unarmored car" after assuring us that he gave careful orders to the troops in the area about how to retreat.
"Gerych"
Another brave soldier from the command center in the chemical plant. Before he retreated, he made sure to destroy all important documents and even the surplus food in the command center.
Its an amazing piece of "journalism" because it manages to provide almost no information whatsoever about the battle. They do have narrative discipline though. The brave Ukrainians fought bravely mowing down wave after wave of incompetent Russian soldiers who in many cases were not even provided with helmets. And if they only had F-16s and more artillery shells, they would have obviously won.
In particular they avoid all explanation of why the fortress which was the chemical plant was evacuated at all. Especially given that the Russians were not even in a position at the time to attack it. But every brave Azov bro is certain that everything should have been evacuated even sooner.
lmao haha what a story bandit
