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'Digging With Bayonets': Russian Mobilization Is Too Little, Too Late To Save Kherson

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Oct 14, 2022
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Ukrainians afvancing towards Luhansk

Russian men mobilized since the end of September are already being killed, wounded, and captured in Kherson, a herald of defeat.

According to the BBC, which obtained a recording of a mobilized man from Chelyabinsk calling home after being wounded, conscripted Russians have been forced to dig their trenches with bayonet…

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