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Horrified by the losses of Russia's army: Ex-US General David Petraeus.
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Russia is recording successes on the Ukraine front – with heavy losses.
Putin's cold-bloodedness surprises even hardened generals.
Moscow - First the city of Avdiivka, then the villages of Stepove and Sieverne: In view of an increasing shortage of ammunition in the Ukrainian armed forces, Russia's army is slowly making progress again in the Ukrainian war.
But the successes come at a high price - the losses of Putin's troops are increasing enormously again.
But the Kremlin apparently continues to accept this with approval.
Even two years after the start of the war, this still causes shocked astonishment in the West.
Ukraine War: General Petraeus shocked by Russia's losses on the front
In view of the high losses, former US General David Petraeus accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being extremely cold-blooded in his treatment of his own soldiers.
"I don't know how Putin can stand this, except that he is such a cold-blooded, brutal autocrat who clearly doesn't care at all about the well-being of his people and certainly not about the soldiers on the front lines," said the former CIA officer. Director of the US news magazine
Newsweek
.
Petraeus knows what he's talking about.
As a US general, he led US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At that time he had to explain the US military's losses.
Petraeus said he had to write many letters of condolence to American mothers and fathers - against this background, he could not explain how Putin could deal with the number of losses he had suffered.
Avdiivka offensive: Russia's army records more casualties than in the Afghanistan campaign
U.S. casualties in the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are far below the Russian numbers in the invasion of Ukraine.
There is no official information about the deaths.
But Western intelligence agencies estimate that between 300,000 and 400,000 soldiers have lost their lives or become incapacitated since Russia's war of aggression began.
In the four-month battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka alone, Putin's forces are said to have sacrificed more fighters than in the Soviet Union's ten-year Afghanistan campaign that took place between 1979 and 1989.
Putin's army relies on bloody world war tactics
The Ukraine war had become a bitter trench warfare in recent months.
But for a few weeks now, Russia has been gaining the upper hand again.
Experts attribute this to the fact that Ukraine is gradually running out of ammunition due to the lack of weapons support from the West.
Putin's troops were recently able to advance primarily in the section of the front near Avdiivka.
However, the Russian military is relying on extremely costly tactics from the Second World War.
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We are talking about assault attacks along the front line, in which the Russian commanders let large numbers of soldiers run towards the positions of the Ukrainian defenders without any consideration.
These should then ensure a breakthrough through their sheer mass and take the defenders by surprise.
The tactic is reminiscent of the Japanese army in World War II, the US magazine
Forbes
recently reported .
The report cannot be independently verified.
However, he would explain the fact that the Ukrainian General Staff recently reported more than 1,000 dead Russian soldiers every day in its situation report - to the horror of US General Petraeus as well.
He also recently made a forecast about the progress of the Ukraine war.
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