• Russian forces seized the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka earlier this month but paid a heavy price.
  • The ISW said the number of Russian fatalities likely exceeds those killed in the Soviet-Afghan war.
  • Russia has often used costly “human wave” tactics to achieve its military objectives in Ukraine.
  • @[email protected]
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    199 months ago

    “The one with the rifle shoots. The one without follows. When the one with the rifle is killed, the one without picks up the rifle and shoots.”

    • @MrFappy
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      139 months ago

      That part of Enemy at the Gates is so fuckin bleak and sobering.