Russian radio interception: ‘Ukrainians fight better, it’s a full-fledged army’

2014/7/31 21:52:23

Their tactics have also noticeably changed: there are increasinly fewer madmen willing to make forays against our forces. The inevitable consequence of this is that the Russians are sending into Ukraine ever great numbers of military hardware and manpower, which consists, in roughly equal shares, of Russian military staff and mercenaries who were supposed to turn things around awhile ago. However, so far they havebeing beaten back and keep retreating.

 


From Euro Maidan Press 31 July 2014

 

“Ukrainians fight better,” this is what Ukrainian soldiers overheard in a radio communication intercepted near the border. “This is no Chechnya, it’s a full-fledged army,” replied an unknown Russian interlocutor. “We’ve been battering them for two weeks and nothing.”

 

“In fact, despite all the shortcomings, we fight much better than the Russians, even after the second Chechen war,” a Ukrainian blogger writes in his article “[An address] to theVatniki (Russian chauvinistic rednecks).”

 

They are surprised to admit it, as this intercepted radio conversations of the Russian military attests. They are particularly impressed by the skill of the artillery, military intelligence, and the special forces. The Russians say they were not able to achieve such high-quality artillery work, even after three wars, including the war in Georgia.

 

For full text, Link below

http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/07/31 ... -its-a-full-fledged-army/

 

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