In ukrainian so we'll see.... but damn if true.
3,029 views Jan 7, 2023
"Another appeal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The cry of the soul of the lads, again abandoned by the command as cannon fodder in the Bakhmut direction. Another case when the ukrovoyaks were abandoned by their commanders in the Bakhmut meat grinder, because of which they suffered big problems. "We are soldiers of the 2nd mechanized company of the 17th battalion of the 57th brigade. On 12/17/2022, by order of the battalion commander, 16 soldiers of the 2nd company were sent to positions in the industrial zone, where the enemy was already. Upon arrival at the position, an intense mortar attack from the enemy was carried out, which continued all night without interruption. Armed only with machine guns and RPGs, against mortars, artillery and tanks. We were under fire from heavy weapons, from the front and from the flanks. As it turned out later, from the right flank, another unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine simply left its positions and the enemy was already there. During the battle, the commander of the second company gave a request to the headquarters and management for artillery support, to which the management gave the order to fight back with grenades. After 15 minutes of intense fighting, the unit suffered heavy losses, and the company commander brought them out of the attack. Of the thirty-two fighters of the 2nd company, only 6 fighters returned. The rest - "two hundred", "three hundred", missing." Their unit has been fighting for more than six months, starting from the Kherson direction, and is now severely exhausted physically and morally, and they are now being charged with desertion