The main reason for the absence of medical evacuation is simple and gruesome: The fighting is just too intense.

It can take a day or even two for soldiers to get in and out of the fiercest fighting spots – killing any hopes of medics coming to save the wounded.

Left alone at the positions, the soldiers often have to pull out their comrades on their own under heavy shelling, sometimes walking five to seven kilometers to the nearest evacuation points, where vehicles take them to makeshift hospitals.

When soldiers carry their wounded out, the group is easy to spot – and it immediately becomes easy prey to Russian first-person view (FPV) drones and artillery.

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    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Russian propaganda and kompromat is working as intended. Putin has proven that the cohesion of western democratic states can be broken with almost no effort, as a result we will see a completely unprecedented rise in territory grabbing and fascist dictatorships over the next 20 years.

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        I mean, cutting checks to all the republicans might make him break a sweat. He’s got a big payroll.

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            10 months ago

            It’s why the US needs to resolve its congress rep situation. If they fixed it, you would need to buy off like 2.2x more reps lol

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        You do realize the Democrats are still in power right? You cannot blame it on Republicans yet.

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          You do realise that it’s a republican house, right? And that they’re the ones holding up aid, right?