Ukraine's Starving Soldiers: A Logistics Nightmare

0:00On April 25, Ukraine's military just fired a top commander after a soldier's wife posted pics online showing her husband and his crew looking, starved on the front line. These guys defending the left bank of the Oskill River near Kupiansk had dropped from over 80 to 90 kilograms down to around 50 each, all, pale, with ribs sticking out. They held that spot for eight months, where food and meds could only come in by drone, as Russians were shelling everything nearby. During one 10-day stretch, with no drops, they melted snow and drank rainwater just to stay alive. The longest without eats hit 17 days. Relative spoke out, saying soldiers were passing out from hunger, begging on the radio but getting ignored. One dad got pulled out but other stayed trapped, and folks like Anastasia Silchuk called it a pattern, not a one-off. The brigade owned up to logistics nightmares, with Russians targeting supply runs hard, so now they're testing unmanned ground bots for drops, and evacuations.

1:00Russia blew bridges to isolate these troops too. Since the post blew up Friday, things shifted quick. A new commander called, food finally landed, and one soldier said he ate more that day than in, eight months. Commands probing it all, with fresh shipments rolling in, and possible pullouts of safe. But these fighters still need rotations in real medical help, to bounce back.