A Russian soldier described the “slaughter” of his comrades in an intercepted call, per Ukrainian intel. He said that in one instance, eight Ukrainian soldiers were able to fend off hundreds of Russians. A Ukrainian official said they built heavy fortifications for expected Russian assaults. A Russian soldier described the “slaughter” of 1,000 0f his comrades and said they don’t stand a chance against well-prepared Ukrainian forces, according to a leaked phone call released by Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR.) On the call, the soldier tells his mother that the whole forest is “dotted with dead soldiers” as Russia tries to take the village of Ivanivka in Kherson Oblast, per a translation by The Kyiv Post.
“There’s such a slaughter going on there!” he said. “More than a thousand were killed.” He describes Russian forces suffering heavy losses when coming up against heavily fortified Ukrainian positions. He said that when a unit of 20 Russians assaulted a Ukrainian position, only “two or three come back.” In one instance, he said, a handful of Ukrainian soldiers fended off hundreds of Russian troops.—AP
