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A top commander was dismissed from his post after the wife of a malnourished soldier posted shocking images on social media...
Ukraine's defense ministry has dismissed a senior commander after photos emerged of a group of emaciated soldiers who had been left on the front line for months without proper food and water.
The scandal erupted after the wife of one of the soldiers, Anastasiia Silchuk, posted the images on social media. The four men looked pale and visibly malnourished, with prominent rib cages and thin arms.
The soldiers had spent eight months defending an increasingly small territory on the left bank of the Oskil River, near the northeastern Ukrainian town of Kupiansk, their relatives said. Food and medicine supplies could only be transported by drones.
“ When the boys arrived at the front line, they weighed over 80-90 kg. But now they weigh about 50 kg. The longest they went without food was 17 days. They didn’t hear them on the radio, or maybe no one wanted to hear them. My husband screamed and begged, saying there was no food and no water ,” Silchuk wrote. After one shipment, she said, no more food appeared for 10 days. The soldiers were forced to drink rainwater and melt snow to survive.
Another relative, Ivanna Poberezhnyuk, said that soldiers from the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade were left in an extremely difficult situation.
"The fighters are losing consciousness from hunger ," she said. Her father was evacuated from the position, but others were still trapped there, she added.
The Ukrainian general staff said it had replaced the commander who was responsible for feeding the soldiers. The brigade admitted to logistical problems and said deliveries were only possible by air because their location was extremely close to enemy lines.
"Everything is done by drones. The Russians pay maximum attention to deliveries of food, ammunition and fuel. They capture and shoot as much as possible. Sometimes they are not so much interested in our military equipment as in logistics, in fact," a spokesman said.
Since Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion in early 2022, the gray area between the two sides has widened dramatically. Both sides make extensive use of drones for surveillance and to target armored vehicles and infantry. Soldiers are forced to walk 10-15 km to reach their forward positions.
In recent months, Ukraine has increasingly used unmanned ground robots to deliver supplies to exposed areas and evacuate wounded soldiers. In the Kupiansk sector, Russia has destroyed bridges over the Oskil River in an attempt to cut off communication with Ukrainian forces on the left bank.
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