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Line 195: + + − ''[[Newsweek]]'' spoke with 'former' U.S. Colonel Andrew Milburn who, together with 'volunteers', trained Ukrainian soldiers: "They've been taking extraordinarily high casualties," Milburn said of the units training with the American Mozart PMC. "The numbers you are reading in the media about 70 percent and above casualties being routine are not exaggerated."<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/wagner-group-targeting-volunteers-ukraine-mozart-group-russia-andy-milburn-1765321</ref> A unit with 50% casualties is usually no longer able to fight and withdrawn from combat. But Zelensky left the units on the frontline until nearly nobody was left in them. −
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{{See also|Battle of Bakhmut}}
{{See also|Battle of Bakhmut}}
Just as [[der Führer]] of the [[Third Reich]], [[Adolf Hitler]] did during the [[Second World War]], [[Zelensky]] ordered that there be no Ukrainian retreat from the frontline city of [[Bakhmut]], giving no solution to a hopeless situation for the Ukrainian military. Ukrainian officers ensured that by blowing up the one bridge providing an escape route to Slavyansk, Ukrainian soldiers could not retreat.
Just as [[der Führer]] of the [[Third Reich]], [[Adolf Hitler]] did during the [[Second World War]], [[Zelensky]] ordered that there be no Ukrainian retreat from the frontline city of [[Bakhmut]], giving no solution to a hopeless situation for the Ukrainian military. Ukrainian officers ensured that by blowing up the one bridge providing an escape route to Slavyansk, Ukrainian soldiers could not retreat.
''[[Newsweek]]'' spoke with 'former' U.S. Colonel Andrew Milburn who, together with 'volunteers', trained Ukrainian soldiers: "They've been taking extraordinarily high casualties," Milburn said of the units training with the American Mozart PMC. "The numbers you are reading in the media about 70 percent and above casualties being routine are not exaggerated."<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/wagner-group-targeting-volunteers-ukraine-mozart-group-russia-andy-milburn-1765321</ref> A unit with 50% casualties is usually no longer able to fight and withdrawn from combat. But Zelensky left the units on the frontline until nearly nobody was left in them.
[[File:Bakhmut meatginder.jpg|left|225px|thumb|The Bakhmut meatgrinder.]]
[[File:Bakhmut meatginder.jpg|left|225px|thumb|The Bakhmut meatgrinder.]]
Morale fell among Ukrainian forces. A viral video addressed to Gen. Zaluzhny and President Zelensky narrated by a Ukrainian soldier stated:
Morale fell among Ukrainian forces. A viral video addressed to Gen. Zaluzhny and President Zelensky narrated by a Ukrainian soldier stated:
{{quotebox-float|"I want to send my greetings to AGETHA [[Zaluzhny]] and to our President. How is it going? Are they warm where you are? You say in your videos that everything is fine, that the soldiers do not need anything. We are not only killed by orks (Russians) but also by cold. Where is our aid? The Administration ignores us. The c@@@@@ only threaten us with imprisonment.
{{quotebox-float|"I want to send my greetings to AGETHA [[Zaluzhny]] and to our President. How is it going? Are they warm where you are? You say in your videos that everything is fine, that the soldiers do not need anything. We are not only killed by orks (Russians) but also by cold. Where is our aid? The Administration ignores us. The c@@@@@ only threaten us with imprisonment.