I was reading Pepe Escobar (iirc) saying that the Russian forces around Kharkov were actually Russian national guard, and aren’t trained to confront militaries. They were occupation police essentially, so they packed up and left when Ukraine advanced, apparently there was little fighting if any.
I was reading Pepe Escobar (iirc) saying that the Russian forces around Kharkov were actually Russian national guard, and aren’t trained to confront militaries. They were occupation police essentially, so they packed up and left when Ukraine advanced, apparently there was little fighting if any.
And Ukraine still lost about two battalions worth of soldiers through artillery strikes and air strikes. A very hollow victory.