Involved ZS-88: Russians performed psychological operations near Avdiivka-Forbes (Video)

A car was brought to the destroyed city for psychological operations of the AS-88 with speakers, to influence Ukrainian troops, probably from the 110th Mechanized Brigade. "Resistance is useless"-sounded from the SS-88 speakers-the variant of the wheel BTR-80. Avdiivsky loudspeaker, apparently, did not work. The Russians captured about 200 Ukrainians in Avdiivka and the surrounding area, but not because the Ukrainians threw their weapons and waved white flags.

The 110th brigade was not enough ammunition. The defenders retreated under the cover of the elite 3rd assault brigade, several of the soldiers were captured by the attacks and executed. This can help explain why the Armed Forces fighters were so stubbornly ignored by the ZS-88 calls.

According to US Air Force Officers Frank Goldstein and Daniel Jacobvitz, successful psychological operations, such as radio broadcasting and distribution of postcards in Kuwait and Iraq in 1991, which helped to convince about 100,000 Iraqi soldiers to surrender With the prisoners, which cannot be said about the actions of the Russians, journalists say.

This may explain why only 4,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Russian Federation is a relatively small number, given that a million Ukrainians are put under the rifle, and hundreds of thousands are on the front line. Ukraine, for its part, holds the "thousands" of Russians from Russian forces on the forefront of about half a million. They are kept in prison -type institutions, where reporters are being allowed from time to time, and where one of the main complaints is little salty food.

According to Forbes, more than 400,000 Russians and 200,000 Ukrainians were killed or injured in Ukraine. If you calculate the number of prisoners exchanged both sides, it turns out that every 100 losses account for about two prisoners of war. In the Second World War, more than 130,000 Americans have become prisoners of war, about 1. 1 million were killed or injured. That is, every eight wounded had one prisoner of war. When the delivery means death, the soldiers, rather, will choose the battle.