Wounded soldiers of the Ukrainian Airborne unit are treated outside the embattled city of Lysychansk, Ukraine on June 26, 2022. (Heidi Levine/for The Washington Post)
Stars and Stripes/Washington Post: A bloody retreat as Ukraine unit hit by Russian cluster bombs
OUTSIDE OF LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine — The Ukrainian Airborne unit was relieved to be pulling back from the front Sunday morning, riding a column of armored personnel carriers away from the embattled city of Sievierodonetsk, which had already fallen to the Russians, and Lysychansk, which was on the brink.
“Nothing happened to us to when we were at the front,” the unit commander said. “It was while we were retreating that we got hit.”
They were hit, and hit badly.
As the convoy moved into the farm village of Verkhniokamianske, with many of the soldiers riding on the outside of the vehicles, the first blast struck right by them. It was a cluster bomb, they would later surmise, something that tore through the contingent of men clinging to that side of one truck.
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WNU Editor: This blog noted a few days ago that my Ukrainian and Russian sources were saying the Ukraine retreat from Sievierodonetsk was a disaster. That it was not a tactical retreat as claimed by Kyiv. The above Washington Post report just confirmed it.
The Russian military is now capitalizing on this retreat .... Russia ‘pouring fire’ on Ukrainian city as offensive mounts (AP).
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