Why 8 Ukrainian Soldiers Held Off "Hundreds" Of Attacking Russians

The Ukrainians were in a prepared defensive position with plenty of ammunition. 

Russian commanders didnt seem to care whether their men could overwhelm the position or died. So they died. JL 

Alia Shoiab reports in Business Insider:

A Russian soldier described the "slaughter" of 1,000 0f his comrades and said they don't stand a chance against well-prepared Ukrainian forces. "Yesterday just eight Ukrainians were sitting in the trench. Our men go there by the hundreds, and they are not even capable of taking a fucking thing!" Snipers and machine gunners were in the trench, along with a "pillbox" — a concrete dug-in guard post — to protect them.Ukraine expected Russia to try and recapture Kupyansk, so "appropriate defense structures were built."

A Russian soldier described the "slaughter" of 1,000 0f his comrades and said they don't stand a chance against well-prepared Ukrainian forces, according to a leaked phone call released by Ukraine's Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR.)

On the call, the soldier tells his mother that the whole forest is "dotted with dead soldiers" as Russia tries to take the village of Ivanivka in Kherson Oblast, per a translation by The Kyiv Post. 

"There's such a slaughter going on there!" he said. "More than a thousand were killed."

He describes Russian forces suffering heavy losses when coming up against heavily fortified Ukrainian positions.

 

He said that when a unit of 20 Russians assaulted a Ukrainian position, only "two or three come back."

In one instance, he said, a handful of Ukrainian soldiers fended off hundreds of Russian troops.

"Yesterday Sam flew the plane and said that just eight people were sitting in the trench, just eight khohols. And our men go there by the hundreds, and they are not even capable of taking a fucking thing!" he said. "Khohols" is derogatory Russian term for Ukrainians.

He said that snipers and machine gunners were in the trench, along with a "pillbox" — a concrete dug-in guard post — to protect them.

 

Insider was not able to independently verify the authenticity of the call.

Ukraine's intelligence department has periodically published the audios of intercepted Russian calls, which Russian media often dismisses as fake.

Russia has been conducting attacks on Ukrainian positions in the town of Ivanivka as they try to push forward toward Kupyansk in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian officials have said.

The spokesperson for Ukraine's Ground Forces Command, Lieutenant Colonel Volodymyr Fitio, said that they expected Russia to try and recapture Kupyansk, so "appropriate defense structures were built," per Ukrinform.