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→Winter campaign - the Bakhmut meatgrinder
Medical evacuation from the frontline trenches was extremely difficult. Most wounded just died there. The equipment they used is mostly lost with them. Doctors reported 80% of all combat injuries were from shrapnel and confirmed the high casualty rate. A months' worth of NATO equipment poured into Ukraine was consumed in Bakhmut in one week<ref>https://youtu.be/vqm2XVKdaio</ref>
Medical evacuation from the frontline trenches was extremely difficult. Most wounded just died there. The equipment they used is mostly lost with them. Doctors reported 80% of all combat injuries were from shrapnel and confirmed the high casualty rate. A months' worth of NATO equipment poured into Ukraine was consumed in Bakhmut in one week<ref>https://youtu.be/vqm2XVKdaio</ref>
Morale fell among Ukrainian forces. One viral video 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. Remember this: We will definitely be back. We will survive. Not just for the victory but to hang you in Kiev, in Maidan Square. Pray that the Russians will arrive first. Then maybe you'll stay alive in jail!"<ref>https://warnews247.gr/o-rosikos-stratos-bike-stin-poli-tou-bakhmut-odomachies-se-katoikimenes-perioches-oukranoi-stratiotes-kata-zelenski-tha-se-kremasoume-sto-kievo/</ref>}}
On December 12, 2022 developments were rapid as Russian forces crushed the defensive lines of the 93rd Brigade, of which almost no one remained, and the Ukrainian 71st Brigade. Street fighting began in the urban center for the first time. Wagner forces launched a large-scale attack, occupied the Siniat factory and entered the first blocks of the urban center from the east.
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