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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Zaporizhzhia on 15 August. He met with the command of the 65th Mechanised Brigade. Source: Zelenskyy on Facebook Quote: "Zaporizhzhia. I met with the command of the 65th Separate Mechanised Brigade, which performs combat tasks as part of the Tavria operational and strategic grouping of troops on the Orikhiv front.
With everything that we have heard. >> every day we lose hundreds of our comrades in arms. it could have been half as many losses if our military functionaries have served us on time with weapons and ammunition and the things we needed. >> this is something we are hearing from other wagner fighters as well. >> we are the utility -- unit. every day we cover difficult combat tasks covering assaults groups. we are completely cut off from the ammunition supply. >> ammunition, ammunition, ammunition and they are following the lead of their boss. -- is blaming the russian army for wagner's shortages...
Because this really brings it home. the u.s. recently said that wagner has only 50,000 troops in ukraine in total. 30,000 casualties. 50,000 people total. and the complaints from inside wagner are starting to mount. i'll warn you that this video that we're going to share with you here is graphic. but a wagner-affiliated social media channel posted it. it is alleged fighters. they're asking for more ammunition. s we can't verify the authenticity of this video but it does track with everything that we have heard. >> translator: every day we lose hundreds of our comrades in arms. it could have be...
In russia is there was a lot of artillery rocket fire going out from russian forces, and also a lot of russian military vehicles also moving in to the area where that front line in and around kharkiv would be. now the russians so far have not acknowledged taking any casualties in this conflict. but today for the first time, major general who is a spokesman for the russian ministry of defense, he came out and he did acknowledge that russians had died and have been wounded. here is what he had to say. >> translator: russian servicemen are displaying courage and heroism in fulfilling combat tasks...
Which may be something difficult for them. also some older trucks as well. certainly it was something quite noticeable. the other thing that is certainly big statement that the russians made today is what you alluded to is the fact that for the first time the russians have now acknowledged casualties. it's really been something of a secret here in russia over the past couple of days. the ukrainians kept claiming there were heavy russian casualties that they've inflicted on the russian army whereas's russian army hadn't said anything about that. it was only a couple of hours ago that the major ...