>>512600366That was the 76th Guards Airborne. It's not the first time the unit's been wiped out in fog of war during what was supposed to be peace time. They're paratroopers. That's doctrinally how you use paras. You drop them somewhere inconvenient to the enemy and they die buying time. In this case, they didn't receive support because the RAF were in the process of withdrawing as part of the good faith agreement, since Ukraine had surrendered. On Height 766, the unit wasn't aware that they were at peace and encountered an enemy unit that also didn't know this. The two units fought to the death with no survivors and it took an investigation to figure out why they both vanished with the only communique being the 76th calling for artillery support (on themselves).
>>512600569>When your intention is to obviously conquer all of itThe conflict in the Donbas has been about the Donbas since 2014, when the US coup'd Ukraine and started ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russians, cut the Dnieper, started collecting only Russian DNA samples in their biolabs, hosted two American SOF units whose function is partisanry and civil unrest, opened spying bases on the border, began hosting US weapons, and started openly declaring the intention to add Ukraine to NATO.
Rusia solved all of these problems and has repeatedly told their ancient joke, "A secure border is one with Russians on both sides." The word Ukraine means border region (of Russia) and they want it to stay there and free of NATO.