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THE UKRAINE WAR
RUSSIAN CASUALTIES
BBC News ... Revealing the hidden casualties of one elite Russian regiment in Ukraine
RUSSIAN CASUALTIES
BBC News ... Revealing the hidden casualties of one elite Russian regiment in Ukraine
Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jrS1xpbNFA
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
Misinformation was an important part of the war effort on both sides of the Second World War. I grew up as a very young child during WWII in the near suburbs of London. Some of my earliest memories were about the strategic damage that comes about as a result of spreading rumours. This was taken very seriously by the British authorities. The Nazis were doing everything within their power and the technolgies of the day to lower the morale of the British people ... and British leadership was doing everything it could to make sure that this did not happen. Both Prime Minister Churchill and the British Royal Family remained in London when it was under attack ... including Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth.
Now it is the turn of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine who has stayed in the middle of Kiev while Putin's Russia attacks.
I am now watching the Ukraine War unfold fron afar, and I am impressed by the morale and the courage of the Ukrainian military and supporting population.
I do wish, however, that the Western free press would be careful about what they put on air. There seems to be an attitude in much of the Western free media that it is business as usual and reporters seem to revel in getting some news that is new, but perhaps of strategic value to the Russian side, This is not right ... but I am not hearing much that would indicate that there is much push-back. As I see it, we should be at or very near a full war footing at the moment in Europe and in the USA ... not in celebration mode simply because we have survived Covid and it is getting to be time for summer holidays.
Life is serious business ... especially when war is in the offing !!!!!!!!
Peter Burgess
BBC News ... BBC is a British public broadcast service.
Jun 30, 2022
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Amid reports of low morale and high casualty numbers in Ukraine's Donbas, BBC Newsnight revisits Russia's 331st Guards Parachute Regiment, considered 'the best of the best.'
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The Donbas has become a battle of attrition with high casualties on both sides, BBC Newsnight charts the impact of the war on the Russian side from the 331st regiment's home in Kostroma to the evolution of symbols painted on their tanks.
In April, we confirmed 39 soldiers had been killed but now BBC Newsnight estimates the total number of casualties to be between 400-500, almost half of the regiment's strength from the beginning of the war.
Newsnight's Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban analyses official and social Russian media to continue the story of the elite unit who are still trapped in a conflict that's claiming more and more lives.
This film was produced by Louis Harris-White and Maria Jevstafjeva.
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