“This is a different kind of war,” said Iryna Vereshchagina, a volunteer doctor working near the front lines. “We’re attacking the Russians but there’s a big payment for this.”
She said that of the hundreds of battlefield casualties she has treated, she has not seen a single gunshot wound.
“So many people are getting blown up,” she said.
She looked down at her boots.
“Sometimes,” she said, “there are just pieces of people left.”
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“The problem is that we are advancing with no artillery preparation, without suppressing their firing positions,” said Ihor Kozub, the commander of a volunteer military unit near the southern city of Mykolaiv.
He said the Ukrainian army was suffering “great losses” because “we don’t have ammunition,” and he begged for the United States to send more.
“All these heroic attacks are made with so much blood,” he said. “It’s terrible.”
A military spokeswoman defended the Ukrainian strategy.
“The enemy’s superiority in artillery does not decide the outcome,” said Nataliia Humeniuk, the head of the communications division for Ukraine’s southern command. “History knows cases of unique battles where the quality of combat was decisive. Not the number of weapons.”
They're just going to keep killing each other absent something truly remarkable happening like Putin being deposed, or a more severe economic recession/depression forcing the international community to demand a diplomatic solution.
