{"id":255421,"date":"2022-06-28T07:49:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T07:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255421"},"modified":"2022-06-30T05:27:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T05:27:36","slug":"a-bloody-retreat-as-ukrainian-unit-hit-by-russian-cluster-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255421","title":{"rendered":"A bloody retreat as Ukrainian unit hit by Russian cluster bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"

(As Moon of Alabama<\/a> notes in his blog, the claim of a cluster bomb is likely wrong. An exploding 152mm high explosive artillery round spreads many fragments of deadly metal around.)<\/p>\n

Steve Hendrix, Serhil Korolchuk \u2013 Washington Post June 26, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

OUTSIDE OF LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine \u2014 The Ukrainian Airborne unit was relieved to be pulling back from the front Sunday morning, riding a column of armored personnel carriers away from the embattled city of Severodonetsk,<\/a> which had already fallen to the Russians, and Lysychansk, which was on the brink.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing happened to us to when we were at the front,\u201d the unit commander said. \u201cIt was while we were retreating that we got hit.\u201d<\/p>\n

They were hit, and hit badly.<\/p>\n

As the convoy moved into the farm village of Verkhniokamianske, with many of the soldiers riding on the outside of the vehicles, the first blast struck right by them. It was a cluster bomb<\/a>, they would later surmise, something that tore through the contingent of men clinging to that side of one truck.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian soldiers lie exhausted after their unit was hit by Russian cluster bombs while pulling back from the front on June 26. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Several men were wounded, with blood pouring from limbs and, in one case, a soldier\u2019s head. But there was no time to treat them while the convoy remained in the crosshairs of Russian artillery. The uninjured applied tourniquets where they could, dragged the hurt back onto the vehicles and raced out of the village, across rutted farm lanes to a line of trees across a golden wheat field about a kilometer away.<\/p>\n

It was just one of the many chaotic scenes that keep unfolding as Ukrainians give up ground to Russia\u2019s relentless push to control the eastern Donbas region.<\/a><\/p>\n

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One soldier assists as the wounded are treated outside a farm village in the eastern Donbas region. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Some soldiers pushed their unit\u2019s vehicles into the tree cover, piling on branches to keep them hidden from drones used for targeting. The others did what they could for the injured, making do with their personal first aid supplies because they had become separated from the unit\u2019s big field medical kit.<\/p>\n

There were eight men wounded, at least two of them seriously. The soldier with the head injury was drifting in and out of consciousness.<\/p>\n

The commander had just radioed their location and requested medical evacuation teams when several Washington Post journalists covering the retreat came upon the group. The soldiers yelled for the journalists to get out of the area: \u201cIt\u2019s not safe!\u201d<\/p>\n

But The Post team\u2019s security escort, a former combat medic, had a well-equipped trauma kit in the car. \u201cCome, come,\u201d the soldiers said.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ukrainian-wounded.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

For the next harrowing half-hour, the security escort worked with the unit\u2019s medic to stabilize the most serious cases. It was a purely humanitarian impulse, he would explain later. Combat medics are trained to treat the injured, no matter the flag on their uniform.<\/p>\n

The convoy\u2019s medic removed the one man\u2019s helmet to show a heavy bandage. \u201cHe was hit in the head,\u201d he explained as a Ukrainian interpreter helped with communication. \u201cBut I don\u2019t find an exit wound. The shrapnel is still in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair administered IV fluids and considered the soldier\u2019s breathing, which was labored. A nasal tube was inserted and oxygen levels checked.<\/p>\n

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Barely an hour after the Russian attack, the Ukrainian unit starts to load its wounded members for evacuation. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Nearby, another soldier was lying in a pool of his own blood on a canvas stretcher, his thigh heavily bandaged.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is Cat?\u201d the man asked, his eyes opening. \u201cIs Cat all right?\u201d<\/p>\n

The others assured him his buddy was fine. \u201cHe\u2019s up walking around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the field, a Ukrainian artillery battery fired a series of shells, barrels belching smoke and flame into the sky.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to get these men going,\u201d said the commander, who asked that he and the soldiers not be named for security reasons. \u201cThen we need to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post\u2019s security escort administered a shot of morphine and handed the unit\u2019s medic a bottle of four antibiotic pills. \u201cGive him one now, and tape the bottle to his body so the doctor knows what he\u2019s had,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The soldier needed to be kept awake, he added, so that his condition could be monitored. With that, another soldier squatted by the stretcher and said something to the injured man. They both laughed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere they come,\u201d the commander said a short time later, eying two plumes of dust racing along the edge of the field. The road out of Lysychansk had been filled with ambulances all morning.<\/p>\n

In minutes, the military ambulance rolled up. The medics jumped out, but the soldiers were ready to load their own men.<\/p>\n

\u201cGive them room, give them room,\u201d the commander said. \u201cTake these two first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For once the Western MSM is being honest. The Ukrainian retreat from Lysychansk is turning into a bloody disaster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":255417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255421"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255444,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255421\/revisions\/255444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/255417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}