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<p>On February 24, the Ukrainian conflict marked one year since the Russian military invasion. However, the Ukrainian military, backed by state-of-the-art Western weapons support, has been fighting back, and the battle lines have stiffened. The damage to Russian forces is growing by the day.</p>
<p><strong> According to the British Defense Ministry, Russian military casualties are estimated at 175,000 to 200,000. The number of war dead is estimated at nearly 60,000. Many fighters from the private military company &#8220;Wagner&#8221; have also been mobilized in Russia. The soldiers being sent out are violent criminals. Mr. Prigogine, the founder of the company, himself goes to prisons and hires prisoners who have committed murder or rape as mercenaries.</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Their monthly salary is double that of the average Russian office worker. They are contracted to fight in the front line in Ukraine for six months, and if they return home alive, they are exempt from charges. Wagner published a video of a senior officer praising the prisoners after they returned from the front, saying, &#8220;You&#8217;ve had six months of adrenaline, so you won&#8217;t have any activity for a month. Don&#8217;t drink too much alcohol. Don&#8217;t use drugs. Don&#8217;t rape anymore.&#8221; (A reporter from the international section of a national newspaper)</strong></p>
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<h2>It&#8217;s like something out of a zombie movie:</h2>
<p>However, the prisoners in &#8220;Wagner&#8221; are poorly equipped and untrained. The combat conditions are horrific, as they mainly use manpower tactics.</p>
<p><strong> According to a Ukrainian soldier interviewed by CNN, the prisoners come at you bleeding all over. No matter how many times we shot at them, they would not go down, so there was no end to it. They would step over the bodies of their comrades-in-arms and charge at them gamely as if they were on drugs. It was like something out of a zombie movie.</strong></p>
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<p>Even with the mobilization of prisoners, the war situation was not going the way the Russians wanted it to. In a speech on February 23, Putin announced a plan to increase nuclear forces. In a speech on February 23, he announced a plan to increase the country&#8217;s nuclear capability.</p>
<p><strong>General Zaruzhny, commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, announced that the Russian military had deployed a self-destructing unmanned boat. They will pose a threat to military and civilian vessels sailing in the Black Sea. This is the first time since the invasion of Ukraine that the use of self-destructing unmanned boats by the Russian military has been revealed.</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;In Odessa in southern Ukraine, a video has been uploaded to the Internet showing an unmanned boat believed to belong to the Russian military blowing itself up and attacking a bridge. It is possible that the Russian military will continue to make extensive use of various types of self-destructing drones as a way to regain their footing if their soldiers are severely depleted. We are going to see an increase in attacks with unmanned weapons, instead of battles between flesh-and-blood humans,&#8221; he said.</strong></p>
<p>The people of Ukraine are also likely to be exposed to the threat of drones rushing in for the purpose of self-destruction.</p>


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 One year has passed since the invasion of Ukraine. One year after the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military is in a tight spot due to unexpected defiance. The Russian military has hired thugs as mercenaries and President Vladimir Putin has suggested the use of nuclear weapons. He has also deployed unmanned boats for self-destruction. The reality of the Russian military in crisis.

Estimated 200,000 Casualties, Russian Military Used a Self-Destructing Unmanned Boat Deployed as a Last-Ditch Effort

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