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Russian troops in Kherson lack artillery and ammunition, military bloggers say

Russian troops in Kherson lack artillery and ammunition, military bloggers say

29/08/2023 08:36:45 World

Moscow's forces in the Kherson region lack artillery and ammunition support, according to several prominent Russian military bloggers.

Roman Saponkov, a Russian blogger who has more than 70,000 subscribers, wrote Friday that troops in the Kherson region had told him about their lack of artillery support.

“The brigade commander and the chief of the reconnaissance battalion are sending our guys in without artillery support, without drones — poor guys are being killed in packs,” Saponkov posted.

Visioner’s Channel, another Russian blog, posted Sunday that Russia’s 205th brigade is facing “an alarming signal of crisis in the army and the country.”

“The main problem of the Russian Ministry of Defense is well known,” the blog said, referencing the lack of ammunition.

“After the disaster with [Yevgeny] Prigozhin, there was confidence that now, at any rate, things would start to move forward and that changes would begin. But the third month has gone by, yet there is still nothing,” the blog said, referencing the incident when the late Wagner chief slammed Russian officials over the lack of ammunition months before his death.

Another Russian blog, Republic, discussed “the growing problems in the Russian army” in a Telegram post on Monday.

“The 205th brigade of the Russian Armed Forces that is fighting in the Kherson region was ordered to occupy islands on the Dnipro River; the servicemen responded by saying that they lacked ammunition, food, artillery support and reconnaissance,” the blog post said. The Russian Ataman Fund, a charitable foundation that provides financial support for frontline soldiers, wrote in a Telegram post Sunday it hopes the supply problem in Kherson will be sorted out so the Russian service members “will be able to defend their homeland with everything they need.”

“Otherwise, there will be trouble,” it said.

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