Ukraine's Donbas Attrition Tactics Working - "Buryats Are Dropping Like Flies"

Russia's armed forces contain a disproportionately large number of ethnic minorities from its poorest regions due to the lack of economic opportunities in those areas. 

Buryats were among the troops who committed atrocities in Bucha and other towns around Kyiv earlier in the war and are now being used as cannon fodder once again in the artillery battle for Severodonetsk. Reports now suggest that Buryat losses have been so severe they have been withdrawn from that salient. JL 

Anna W reports in Quora:

Ukrainian Forces’ tactic in Severodonetsk is to exhaust the Russian army as much as possible. And it seems to work. Russians have withdrawn the remaining Buryat troops from Severodonetsk because "they’re dropping like flies”. The Buryats are a Mongolian people comprising one of the two largest ethnic groups in Siberia. (They are disproportionately represented in the Russian armed forces due to lack of other economic opportunities in their home region.) Russia’s losses in Luhansk Oblast far exceed those of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Forces’ tactic in Severodonetsk is to exhaust the Russian army as much as possible. And it seems to work. Russians have withdrawn the remaining Buryat troops from Severodonetsk because "they’re dropping like flies”.

The tactic of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Severodonetsk area at this stage is to exhaust the Russian army as much as possible, inflicting maximum losses on enemy manpower and weaponry - says the adviser to the head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, Mykhailo Podoliak.

And these tactics seem to work.

Serhii Haidai, the head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, has reported that the Russians have withdrawn the remaining Buryat troops from Sievierodonetsk because they are significantly weaker than the Ukrainian troops.

Ukraine hopes to accumulate enough weapons supplied by partners to be able to launch an effective counterattack, the official stressed.

Podolyak noted that Russia seeks to wage war in such a way as to make the evacuation of civilians impossible, destroying urban infrastructure with heavy artillery.

Intense fighting is currently underway in the east of the country, which is taking more and more lives of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians.

And the reason for this is the absolute lack of parity in terms of artillery, according to the advisor, who added that Russian troops have deployed almost all of their non-nuclear weapons on the front line, including heavy artillery, multiple rocket launchers, and warplanes, which led to a higher number of casualties among Ukrainian forces.

But at the same time as Serhii Haidai, the head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, reported - the Russians have withdrawn the remaining Buryat troops from Sievierodonetsk because they are significantly weaker than the Ukrainian troops..

Quote: "They’re dropping like flies. The Ruscists have withdrawn the remaining Buryats from Sievierodonetsk because they can’t withstand the fights with the Ukrainian defenders.

Fierce fighting is continuing in Sievierodonetsk. The Buryats have retreated because they are significantly weaker than our defenders."

Details: According to Haidai, Russian occupation forces are intensively firing on Lysychansk with high-calibre weapons, which can penetrate concrete.

The residents of Lysychansk are in extreme danger, even in shelters.

There is no fighting in the city or on its outskirts.

In addition, fighting is continuing in the towns and villages of the Hirske and Popasna hromadas [amalgamated territorial communities - ed.].

Haidai added that the level of the Siverskyi Donets river has fallen due to the hot weather, meaning that the Russian forces might attempt another crossing.

According to Haidai, Russia’s losses in Luhansk Oblast far exceed those of Ukraine.

Read also: Long-range artillery to allow clearing Siverodonetsk of enemy forces in a few days - region chief

The Buryats are a Mongolian people, about 516,476, comprising one of the two largest indigenous groups in Siberia, the other being the Yakuts. The majority of the Buryat population lives in their titular homeland, the Republic of Buryatia, a federal subject of Russia near Lake Baikal.