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A Russian unit suffered horrific losses and was almost wiped out after a fierce battle near the city of Donetsk in the Donbas. The mobilised soldiers had been drafted from the Buryat Republic in eastern Siberia. As Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine approaches its ninth month, the Russian army finds itself on the retreat on two fronts.
Ukraine’s army is advancing in the Donbas to the east and in Kherson province to the south.
Russia’s battlefield defeats have forced the Kremlin to shake up its military command and introduce a nationwide mobilisation.
One mobilised unit from the Buryat Republic in eastern Siberia was sent to boost troop numbers in the Donbas on September 13.
A video posted to social media shows the enlisted men performing the Yohor, a national dance, as they prepare to head to the front.
Just two weeks later most of them were killed after a fierce battle near the eastern city of Donetsk.
Oles Filonenko, a Russian analyst, tweeted: “On September 13, mobilised men went to war from Buryatia. They dance the national dance Yohor.
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There appears to be no let-up in Russian casualties, with reports emerging of hospitals struggling to cope with the injured.
Ukraine’s General Staff claimed that Russian hospitals are so poorly equipped and staffed that over 50 percent of the in cured end up dead.
In their Saturday morning bulletin, they wrote: “Hospitals are overcrowded in the city of Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia region.
“According to information from local residents, civilians are not accepted in hospitals due to the workload of doctors and the lack of beds.
“Due to the low quality of medical care and the refusal of the command of the Russian occupying forces to evacuate the seriously wounded to the territory of Russia, the mortality rate among them exceeds 50 percent.”
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