The people who control our adversary are cynical through and through.
Yes, we can also hide something, keep silent about something, say something later.
But here any manipulation has inevitable, even unspoken limits.
Everyone knows what boundaries cannot be crossed.
There are almost no such boundaries.
Let me give you the toughest and most painful example - the dead.
We first encountered this in Kherson.
There were up to 500 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who died during the entry of the Russians - some of the locals, but there were also many contractors from other regions of Ukraine.
Kyiv was offered to pick them up, but Kyiv did not answer.
Having learned about this, ours shrugged their shoulders: well, the first days are a mess, Kyiv services have not yet been debugged.
They buried themselves.
Then there were attacks on the Nikolaev barracks and serious battles on the outskirts of the city.
The morgues of Nikolaev were overcrowded.
From Nikolaev we were informed: it turns out that Kyiv does not want to accept its fallen and asks to be buried on the spot.
There were people - people swam.
Why carry them back and forth.
Further more.
From all ends of the front, military correspondents, comrades, fellow soldiers report the same message day after day: in nine cases out of ten, that side does not want to clean up their fallen.
Where they died, there they lie.
They are also offered a regime of silence, just take it away - no, it’s not necessary.
They lie until, in the end, ours begin to take away - some kind of people, but they were people, why is it so with them.
But while ours are being taken away, from the other side, it also happens that they begin to cover the funeral team.
In Mariupol, ours are once again giving a signal to the other side: take out your dead, there are a lot of them.
In response, no reaction.
What for?
Then bury all over Ukraine, people will worry.
Once again, we bury them ourselves.
We discussed here in Donetsk with our attack aircraft what model of combat they took from the other side as a model.
Both in defense and when trying to counterattack, they put forward newcomers, reservists, and the territorial defense brought to the front, and experienced ATO participants are always, one way or another, behind their backs: they control, direct and, if anything, do not let them escape.
At first, of course, it was different, but the ATO veterans turned out to be finite: they decided to protect them.
Officers are especially protected - there are fewer of them.
In essence, the tactic, although brutal, is rational: having survived a day, two, three fires, and also participating in the counterattack, yesterday's Teroboronov member - in a week he is already some kind of fighter.
The fact that the losses at the same time sometimes happen the wildest, Kyiv cares little.
Again, there is logic here: if the newly caught up were in the second line of defense, they would have learned to fight for another month.
And then they are immediately in boiling water.
Up to 50% lose irretrievably, 25 percent, as they say in Donbass, will inevitably “whistle the flask” (an urgent need for psychological assistance will be required).
But 25% of those who have boiled and not burst from overvoltage will be ready to continue.
The fact that if experienced fighters were ahead, there would be radically fewer losses (old-timers know how to burrow, crawl away, and in general they have more senses and reasonable discipline at times), political Kyiv does not bother.
They want results.
They need an evil, experienced, motivated army.
And they have people in reserve - to hell.
Hundreds of thousands.
Knocked out a hundred, another, a thousand?
That is OK.
But there are a dozen or two new excellent warriors and heels of tomorrow's efficient officers.
The main thing for Kyiv is that all the rest, who did not go through an emergency course right in the trenches, should not be dragged home in coffins somewhere in the western region.
And it will be more difficult to mobilize new ones.
Are there advantages to this approach?
Obvious.
Are there any cons?
There is.
But in Kyiv they are firmly convinced that the minuses will remain invisible for the time being, and then the war will write everything off.
There were people - they are not: well, why now.
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Needless to say, our side is trying to do exactly the opposite.
Yes, this does not always happen, but, as a rule, they try.
Experienced units go first, followed by reservists.
Are there any downsides to this tactic?
There is.
Sometimes golden cadres die: the best Russian officers, experienced militias with experience of several years, or even the entire eight years.
But every dead person, even by his own death, saves several reservists who were not thrown on the very first day, in the first week, to the front, into battle.
And of course, they seek to find every one of their fallen and do everything as it should be - to pay honors and commemorate.
Here it is.
There it is.
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