The Russian army is approaching the town of Chasiv Yar, located on the front line in Donbas, in several sectors of the front. Moscow's losses are not only enormous here.

Chasev Yar – What these photos of the Ukrainian war in Russia suggest is pure speculation. Ultimately, the Kremlin regime promotes murder and death as if the population were behind the “special military operation,” as the attack on Moscow’s western neighbor is called, which violates international law.

Ukraine War: Russian soldiers complain of heavy losses

Anton Herashchenko, Advisor to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and former Deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine (2019 to 2021), shared a video of three Russian soldiers from the front on X (formerly Twitter) which was a blast for the regime of Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin.

In this video, the three men, recognizable by their Moscow Army uniforms, complain vociferously about the heavy losses Russia has suffered against the Ukrainian armed forces and about the allegedly devastating conditions in which they have to fight against the defenders. In the pictures, they appear completely surrendered and terrified.

Casualties in the Ukraine War: Russian soldiers reported many corpses

“We can't do anything, we're just cannon fodder. We've been bombed with all kinds of weapons,” one Russian soldier says in the video from a makeshift hole that was supposed to serve as a fire shelter. Another soldier talks about potential casualties in her unit: “There were 19 people out today. Zero left. They're all gone.” The other soldier continues, cataloging the nature of the Ukrainian bombing: „Cluster munitions are a nightmare. „It's the second day they've been shooting at us with cluster munitions.” He explains that the Ukrainians, using cluster munitions, prevented them from returning to their company.

„There's no contact with anyone, we don't have anything. Why were we thrown here?” One soldier explains, and the other replies: “There are bodies everywhere.” They both look very disappointed while the third soldier depicts the sad scenario. They say that when they were „dumped” into the area, their armored personnel carrier was set on fire with all their supplies and equipment. The tank was „shot down immediately.” They have no shovels to dig trenches. “No water, nothing,” one soldier explains. “If we hadn’t been bombed, we could have gone out and filmed how many boys were lying and lying and lying,” says the other. „Here in this forest.” And also: „Everything is covered with corpses.”

If we had not been bombed, we could have gone out and photographed how many men lie and lie in this forest.

Russia's heavy losses: Putin's army nevertheless advances towards Chasev Yar

At the end of April 2024, their report from the front lines is in line with Western observers' assessments of the military situation in the Ukrainian war, as the United States launches $61 billion in new military aid to Kiev. In several parts of the Donbass frontline, Putin's forces are nonetheless approaching the „fortified city of Chasiv Yar” (formerly population 13,000), according to the US news magazine. Newsweek The small town is five kilometers west of Bakhmut.

An indication of the current course of the war: the Ukrainians actually wanted to retake Bakhmut from there, which was evacuated in May 2023, but the Russian army has long since begun to attack here – as in many places. According to the report, the Ukrainian military recently warned that Russia wants to advance from Chasev Yar to Kramatorsk and Slovyansk. The large city of Kramatorsk, with a population of about 150,000, is the Ukrainians' central logistical point for the Donbass front due to its large train station and well-developed rail network to Kharkiv in the northeast of the country.

The town of Chasiv Yar is on the front line in Ukraine: Russia suffers heavy losses in Donbass

However, Chasev Yar is “strongly defended” and located on a hill, the British Ministry of Defense explained in an assessment of the situation on Sunday (April 22): “Russian ground forces are making slow progress in the area.” Institute for the Study of War (ISW) However, he wrote in an analysis that the invasion of Chasiv Yar “would enable Russia to penetrate the belt of operationally important fortified cities in Ukraine.”

Chasiv Yar and Kramatorsk are of great military importance not only to the Ukrainian army in the east of the country, but also to the neighboring city of Kostyantinivka, which once had a population of 70,000. high Newsweek Kostiantynivka is the „backbone of Ukrainian defence” in the Donetsk region. The city is located approximately six kilometers southwest of the besieged district of Chasiv Yar. It remains to be seen how the expected deliveries of several US 155-meter artillery shells will affect the front line in this Ukrainian region. (evening)