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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, a close disciple of Gen. Surovikin, confirmed the operational self-restraints that governed the initial stages of the [[Special Military Operation]] have been completely discarded:

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, a close disciple of Gen. Surovikin, confirmed the operational self-restraints that governed the initial stages of the [[Special Military Operation]] have been completely discarded:

{{Cquote|At the beginning of the special military operation, we did not fight a classic [[war]]. The means of destruction and the battle itself—at the [[tactic]]al level, everything was done in such a way as to exclude losses and damage to [[civilia]]ns. We have now moved towards [[reality]] and abandoned outdated requirements for troop training... It is a new form of [[war]]fare. The [[Ukrainian army]] is not independent; it relies heavily on [[NATO]]. Without [[Europe]], without the so-called ‘civilized world,’ they would have fought with antediluvian plywood technologies and collapsed long ago. By turning this into a [[foreign]]-directed [[coalition]] [[war]] against [[Russia]], [[the West]] has forced us to fight this as a classic, unrestricted war.}}

{{Cquote|At the beginning of the special military operation, we did not fight a classic [[war]]. The means of destruction and the battle itself—at the [[tactic]]al level, everything was done in such a way as to exclude losses and damage to [[civilian]]s. We have now moved towards [[reality]] and abandoned outdated requirements for troop training... It is a new form of [[war]]fare. The [[Ukrainian army]] is not independent; it relies heavily on [[NATO]]. Without [[Europe]], without the so-called ‘civilized world,’ they would have fought with antediluvian plywood technologies and collapsed long ago. By turning this into a [[foreign]]-directed [[coalition]] [[war]] against [[Russia]], [[the West]] has forced us to fight this as a classic, unrestricted war.}}

==Ukraine's 425th assault unit==

==Ukraine's 425th assault unit==