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Russian forces throw summer reserves into costly push toward Kupyansk

Russian forces significantly intensified offensive operations toward Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi and breached the town's northern districts, Joint Forces Grouping spokesperson Victor Trehubov announced on July 21.

21 July, 01:35 PM

Newly deployed Russian recruits survive just 20 minutes at the front

A newly deployed Russian army recruit survives for just 20 to 35 minutes once they reach frontline combat positions, historian Peter Frankopan reported in an article for Foreign Policy on June 25.

29 June, 02:15 PM

Russia shifts from ‘meat grinder’ assaults to stealthier tactics

Russia’s invading army is shifting from mass assaults to stealthier infiltration tactics that Western analysts warn may be more dangerous, The Telegraph reported on May 1.

3 May, 04:22 PM

Russian POW details catastrophic survival rates in Russian army - video

Captured Russian invader revealed the massive scale of losses in his unit, the 11th Army Corps of the Ukrainian Ground Forces reported on its Telegram channel on April 24, publishing the corresponding video.

24 April, 02:54 PM

Zelenskyy: Russia will lose 800,000 troops to seize Donbas

Moscow will have to pay an “extremely high price” in the lives of hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers to fully seize the Donbas region and the whole of eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with French broadcaster France 2 on Feb. 4.

5 February, 09:05 AM

Kremlin turns war in Ukraine into systemic abuse of its own people

“Bunker Putin”, “cannibal commanders,” “disposable mercenaries” — Russian social media vocabulary is becoming increasingly anti-war, just like public sentiment, researcher Liubov Tsybulska said in an interview with NV on Jan. 16.

16 January, 08:30 AM

Russia may seize Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad - only to bleed for every block

Russian occupiers will likely be able to temporarily occupy Myrnohrad and Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, but doing so will require more time and will cost them heavily, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote on Nov. 11.

12 November 2025, 11:17 AM

Russia still sends disposable infantry; reserves start to run dry — video

Russia can still afford to send infantry one-way to Ukraine's front, but this resource is ending, deputy commander of the Lubart brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Andrii Dyachenko said in an interview with Radio NV on Oct. 21.

22 October 2025, 09:25 AM

Ukraine debunks Russian claims of fresh summer offensive

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin plans to continue deploying reserves to carry out brutal “meat-grinder” assaults and attempt to capture eastern Ukrainian cities, Andrii Kovalenko, Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) head wrote on July 14.

14 July 2025, 11:16 AM

‘Fresh Meat’ sign next to Russian army store enrages Russian military blogger

In the temporarily occupied city of Lutuhyne, Luhansk Oblast, a sign reading “Fresh Meat” was placed next to a banner advertising Russian military gear — provoking fury among Russian war propagandists.

12 June 2025, 12:15 PM

Meat grinders for Russian cannon fodder's mothers

Russia's aggression has come full circle in a grimly sarcastic way - now even the grieving mothers of killed invaders are getting their very own meat grinders as gifts from the state. After all, what better way to honor those ground up on Ukraine's frontlines than with a device designed to do the same at home?

7 March 2025, 12:17 PM

7,000 Russian troops lost in Pokrovsk in January – more than in whole Chechen War

Russian forces suffered 7,000 irrevocable losses on the Pokrovsk front — more than the total death toll in the entire Second Chechen War, Khortytsia Operational-Strategic Group spokesperson Viktor Trehubov said at the United News telethon on Feb. 6.

6 February 2025, 03:06 PM

Toretsk under fire: Russian forces push relentlessly, Ukrainian defenders hold frontline

Russian army continue assault operations near the city of Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, the threat of the city being seized persists, Anastasia Bobovnikova, Luhansk Operational-Tactical Grouping spokesperson, said at the National Television on Dec. 17.

17 December 2024, 12:10 PM

Russian command throws demoralized, wounded soldiers into meat-grinder attacks

Russian forces are throwing wounded soldiers into “meat-grinder assaults” on the Ukrainian positions in the Lyman sector of the front in Donetsk Oblast, the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) wrote on Telegram on Oct. 28.

28 October 2024, 11:56 AM

South Korea calls North Korean soldiers fighting against Ukraine 'cannon fodder'

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong Hyeon said that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has sent his troops to fight against Ukraine as mere "cannon fodder", Yonhap news agency wrote on Oct. 24.

24 October 2024, 02:57 PM

'Meat grinder' tactics intensify as Russian generals promise Pokrovsk to Putin

Russian generals have promised Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to take the Pokrovsk agglomeration by Oct. 1, Ukrainian military expert and the New Geopolitics Research Network’s director told Radio NV on Aug. 28.

29 August 2024, 11:25 AM

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