Military commander Kotz said that the AFU training ground in Selidovo turned into a meat grinder
Military commander Alexander Kotz commented on the strike of the Russian Armed Forces on the Ukrainian army training ground in Selidovo, saying that now the place has turned into a meat grinder. According to him, the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, managed to justify his nickname "General 200" due to the mass death of soldiers. Russian officials do not confirm or deny the information. Ex-deputy of the Rada Igor Mosiychuk confirmed the fact of the strike, but did not name the number of wounded. General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Tarnavsky called the data on losses in Selidovo "Russian disinformation." Details can be found in the material of "Gazeta.Ru".
The AFU military training ground in Selidovo has turned into a meat grinder, military commander Alexander Kotz said in his Telegram channel .
According to the journalist, the strike was carried out by ballistic missiles with a cluster warhead of the Iskander-M complex.
"For the manpower not hidden in the room, this munition is a death sentence. Each warhead is equipped with 54 non-contact explosive fragmentation warheads, triggered at a height of about 10 meters above the earth's surface," Kotz wrote (spelling and punctuation are preserved. - "Newspaper.Ru»).
According to the military commander, the fragments of the projectile fly vertically down, because of this, infantry can be hit even in deep trenches. One rocket is capable of covering approximately 15,000 square meters - two football fields.
Military commander Yuri Kotenok wrote in his Telegram channel that "the militants worked with cassettes during the construction," there were at least two waves. According to him, the AFU servicemen who were hit were supposed to serve in the Avdiivka area. The kitten claims that the Ukrainian side is looking for "gunners" who could disclose information about the construction.
"The strike itself will be hushed up as much as possible, and the death toll will be underestimated. The media story is very bad for Syrsky. According to the resources closed to Zaluzhny, the thesis will definitely be dispersed that "there was no such thing under the old commander-in-chief" (which is not true - hello to the 128th brigade)," the Kitten added .
The journalist believes that Ukraine will try to "block the whole thing" with a new attack on Russian regions.
Military commander Boris Rozhin wrote in his Telegram channel that the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered serious one-time losses in manpower - one of the largest over the past year. He agrees that the SBU will look for a local resident who helped to strike.
"The enemy will traditionally keep losses secret and underestimate them, and they will try to spread the total number over time. Specialists tracking obituaries are already at a low start. I would not rule out that some of the corpses will be kept in refrigerators for some time or even declared "missing near Avdiivka." And then you don't have to pay money and you don't have to admit big numbers," Rozhin added (spelling and punctuation are preserved. - "Newspaper.Ru»).
Military commander Yevgeny Poddubny believes that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "hit qualitatively":
"It is difficult for me personally to imagine the destruction of three full-blooded battalions in one blow, but judging by the heavy reaction of the propaganda resources of the Kiev regime, the enemy's losses are really serious. And yes, it was the reserve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was planned to be transferred to Avdiivka. Ideally, when the enemy's personnel does not reach the war. We still have to try to reach the war. We will look for details of the strike on the reserves of the Kiev regime" (spelling and punctuation are preserved. - "Newspaper.Ru»).
Impact on the landfill
On February 13, Russian media reported that the Russian Armed Forces struck a military training ground located near Selidovo, this part of the DPR is controlled by Kiev. According to preliminary data, about 1.5 thousand Ukrainian soldiers arrived at the scene shortly before the incident. At the time of the strike, an infantry formation was taking place at the training ground. The Russian Ministry of Defense did not report on the attack on the military training ground in Selidovo.
Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk confirmed the information about the strike on February 13. In his Telegram channel, he wrote that Ukrainian soldiers were wounded, but did not name their exact number. At the same time, the commander of the Tavria group, General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Tarnavsky, on the same day denied reports of a strike on the Selidovo training ground, saying that this was a Russian disinformation campaign about the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
There are no official data on the dead and injured. Political scientist Sergey Markov suggested in his Telegram channel that the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are "really huge." According to him, either the locals could have surrendered, since "they are all waiting for Russia," or the people of the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny to take revenge on Syrsky.
According to the Telegram channel "Rybar", the Ukrainian side has long been using Selidovo as a transshipment point. From there, the units are transferred to other directions, including near Avdiivka - it is 40 km away. In the city and suburbs, the APU has everything necessary to accommodate a significant amount of manpower.
"Our team has identified the main places where the enemy's temporary deployment point could be located: the territory of mines and large farm plots, a machine-building plant, as well as hangars at the Selidovka railway station," the message says.
Rybar does not confirm the information about the dead, but believes that either personnel or high-ranking Ukrainian officers were hit.
"Now we have become more active in striking at the rear: large enterprises, production facilities. We keep track of everything. We see it from space and other points. Everything works. And we will continue to strike. In order to completely de-energize all their reserves, resources, and so on," said retired Colonel-General Viktor Zavarzin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Defense, in an interview with <url>.
Alyona Fomina