About Perishing of "Duty Bound" Commandos
A minor comment on the topic of mourning and the question "Should we regret" the paratroopers who burned with the airplane.
This is a war and during a war there are killings. The commandos of the 25-th airborne brigade are on the enemy side for a long time now, those who wanted already jumped the ship and bugged out of this war. Those who remained took part in the junta's military operations, in particular, they helped to secure the strategically important Luhansk airport, which aided the strategical grip on the LPR, and a little earlier - when they took combat positions in the vicinity of Perekop, while the junta was suppressing the resistance in Kherson and Nikolayev. The references to "they executed their orders" and "they are duty bound people" - do not cut it. Because executing criminal orders automatically equates such a soldier to the criminals who issued them.
Those who burned in IL-76 paid for their reluctance to perform acts in order to avoid participation in the punitive operation and paid for it with their lives.
I am far from ukrainscious (N.B. the pseudo-word "ukrainscious" obtained by merging "Ukrainian" and "conscious" is an attempt to translate word "свидомый" when it is used in Russian, where it roughly stands for "of a contemporary rabid Ukrainian nationalist sentiment") gloating and from the jokes about "burning fennels" (N.B. in Russian, fennel translates into "Укроп", which is often used as derogatory word for a Ukrainian soldier who participates in the punitive operation). The war is too dirty an affair to joke about - there is nothing pretty or funny in it.
This is certainly not payback for Odessa, because none of the organizers of the Odessa Khatyn paid for the massacre that they organized.
What happened in Luhansk is high one-time losses of the junta's military, which became possible due to criminal neglect of the fact of presence of MANPADS with the militia fighters, which led to massive casualties and to definitive demoralization of the 25th airborne brigade, whose personnel dissolved in the nearby vegetation after a riot in the Luhansk airport.
Blood and mass perishing of their fellow-soldiers, stupid and terrible perishing at that - do not contribute to preserving the morale whatsoever.
Of course, because the war continues, there is no point in regretting such enemy losses, quite the opposite - maximizing enemy losses is the best way to speed up the end of the punitive operation in Donbass. Needless to say, there shouldn't be any mourning due to perishing of these commandos.
Judging from the wreckage, at least one 1 IFV perished together with the commandos.
Militia fighters freely roam the IL-76 crash site, which visibly suggests that the surroundings of the airport are not controlled by the junta.
PS. And yes, according to the corrected data of the junta's - this morning in Mariupol there were 5 of the junta's border police killed and 7 were wounded. They paid with their lives, so to say, for yesterday's raid by Lyashko.
In this regard it is quite amusing to observe as the yesterday's euphoria of the Bander-logs (N.B. the synthetic word "Bander-log" is an attempt to translate the Russian word "бандерлог", the meaning of which combines Kipling's Bandar-logs and Stepan Bandera followers, into English) was replaced by a dark temper tantrum after today's losses.
Original article: http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/1622437.html (in Russian)