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How to understand the logic of a meat grinder?
In his new column, the writer and researcher of the Z-community Ivan Filippov talks about what “meat assaults”, “zeroing” and “stealing” mean and how, having thought about the real significance of these expressions, one can understand why the war in Ukraine goes the way it goes.
What does the military newly -eared tell us, and for which the generals receive rewards and raises
“I think I save this nation. I think this nation will be defeated very soon. This is a large military machine [Russian]. Let's look in the eye of the truth. ”
This is a fresh statement by US President Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine, in which he so modestly appreciated his participation in attempts to reduce two warring countries at the negotiation table. Trump is not the first to seriously say that Ukraine as a state is on the verge of death, and Putin’s readiness to “not capture” the country completely calls the “real concession ” from Moscow.
In fact, the advance of the Russian army is slow and without loud victories, except for such an extinction of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces from the Kursk region nine months after they went there. At the same time, this slow advancement by thousands of thoughtlessly ruined lives is paid. The problems of the army were not solved, they were not solved, and there are no, no, no, and there is a video of how the Russian soldier, distraught from pain or despair, lets himself a bullet in the head, left by his comrades behind the front line.
Literally every day, the warring Z-authors write about endless “meat assaults”, to which the soldiers send and send commanders. And about the losses that the army carries in a heavy offensive lasting a year.
Ahead of the truce in honor of the Victory Festival, already called "barbecue." From May 8 to 11, the Russian army in accordance with the order of Vladimir Putin will not conduct hostilities. The fact that the ceasefire will not be observed in full, obviously from the experience of the recent Easter ceasefire. It’s just that in these four days the Russian army will exhale a little, and then the generals will drive it further again - to die.
Real Russophobia
The fourth year of the war is supposedly for the “Russian world”, supposedly “in defense of the Russian language”. Allegedly, Ukraine is an “anti-Russia”, and the entire collective West is obsessed and “blind” by Russophobia.
But what is "Russophobia"? This is a hostile or biased attitude towards Russia, Russian people, their culture, history and language. When Vladimir Putin speaks of the “Russophobia” in the context of the war, it is understood that warlike Russophobes want to not just weaken, but literally exterminate the Russian people. But this is just a lie, because the latest history of Russia did not know more Russophobe than Putin himself.
Judge for yourself: over the past 70 years (from the death of Stalin), not a single Soviet or Russian leader brought so much death and grief to our country. No one in the 21st century shed as much Russian blood as Vladimir Putin did, starting a war in Ukraine (and we are not talking about other military conflicts). The number of the dead, which is conducted by the Russian BBC and Mediazona Service, now 104763 who died on the Russian side.
Is this not real Russophobia - a consistent senseless extermination of their own people?
But Russian Vladimirovich is destroying Russians, of course, not by himself. Not personally. For more efficient processing of Russian soldiers in the “cargo-200”, there are special people at its military meat processing plant. And we will talk about them today. About those whom the Russian military themselves call "butchers."
War Dictionary
Three years of the war enriched the Russian language with many new concepts. For example, the word "stealing" appeared. Do you know what "stealing" is? No? This is when, in an attempt to take the next Ukrainian village of the regiment in meaningless assaults “in the forehead” “flows”, that is, exterminates, in a week “to zero”. You see, yes? The regiment dies. That is, 1,500–2500 people, if the regiment is combined arms. Was - and no.
Or "meat assault." Also a new concept, but, unfortunately, the usual one. “Meat assault” is when poorly prepared infantry without artillery or at least mortar support, without reconnaissance, most often just with small arms they send to storm the fortified areas, that is, in fact, the fortresses occupied by the Ukrainian military. Why are such assaults called "meat"? Because not the military participate in them, but the “meat” are poorly armed soldiers, whom, they are injured, they may not even evacuate from the battlefield. “Do you see that tree? There is an enemy there. Go and knock out. ” Well, if everyone is field, then there are a lot of “meat” - they will send a new one.
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And finally, one more important word for our conversation today: “Knight”. I often write about this, but, to my shame, I admit, I rarely explain that this word means - it has very tightly entered my life. If simply, then “zeroing” is an out -of -court execution. The officer did not like the soldier - he sent him to the "meat assault". "Relieved" that is. Remember this concept, we will return to it.
So. “Meat assaults”, “stealing” and “zeroing” became possible in the Russian army due to the fact that generals rule it, for whom the price of human life does not matter.
Putin butcher
I will not be able to list all the main butchers of the Russian army, but today we will talk about generals Alexander Lapin, Rustam Muradov and Andrei Serdyukov. And also about Lieutenant General Sukhran Akhmedov and Colonel Igor Puzika with the call sign “Evil”.
The story of why Colonel General Lapin is considered one of the worst Putin’s military and a bloody butcher can be fitted in two words: Seversky Donets.
It was Lapin who ordered in May 2022 to force the river in the Luhansk region 100 meters wide in the area of action of Ukrainian drones and artillery. According to various estimates, while trying to cross the Russian army, the Russian army lost up to 70 units of armored vehicles and about 500 people killed.
This brilliant military operation demonstrates not only the strategic genius of General Lapin. This is an example of how human life is valued in the Russian army. And the example of the very Russophobia Vladimir Putin, which I spoke about at the beginning: after in May 2022, under the leadership of General Lapin, the Russian army suffered one of the most crushing and humiliating defeats in the whole war, in July of the same year, Vladimir Putin handed Lapina the star of the Hero of Russia.
It will be even easier to talk about the next Putin butcher. In the Russian army today there is a term - “Muradovschina”. What is it? Muradovschina is poorly organized offensive operations. When the equipment goes with dense columns without engineering intelligence and without artillery support. With a predictable result - that is, carrying very serious losses. I already told you about "meat assaults." Here is General Muradov - the embodiment of this concept. We can say "personification."
The general was especially distinguished for the war twice: in 2022 he held a “triumphal” storm of the village of Pavlovka in the Donetsk region, and in February 2023, under his command, the Russian army tried to capture Ugledar. There are no verified data on losses in these battles. But, after in November 2022, Russian troops occupied Pavlovka, military personnel from the 155th Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet, who took the village, sent an appeal to the Governor of the Primorsky Territory Oleg Kozhemyako with a request to contact the Ministry of Defense and demand an investigation of unreasonably large losses. According to one of the military brigade, during the assault on Pavlovka, presumably 100-115 people died, and in total in the brigade about 450-500 dead.
And the direct responsibility for these dead is the ideological Russophobe, literally the director of the Vladimir Putin meat processing plant - Rustam Muradov.
The Russian army suffered no less losses during the assault on Ugled. According to the Ukrainian side, in the area of Ugledar and Maryinka of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation they lost 150-300 marines per day. And this lasted within a week in February 2023.
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Since I am a person of extremely anti -war views, my grades may seem biased to you. So let's see what supporters of war say about General Muradov. For example, the former fighter of the Wagner PMC, and now the author of the telegram channel Alex Parker Returns: “All assaults under the leadership of Muradov were failed and built according to one principle-go to the minefield, there is no one there. Hello to Ugled. "
And, I think, you can guess how the fate of General Muradov has developed. True, you have already guessed?
Now, for reliability, I will again use a quote from the wireworm, this time the Russian Capital Channel: “The multinational minister General Rustam Muradov, who mediocre hundreds of Russian boys and tons of equipment near Pavlovka and Ugled in 22-23, was appointed deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Federation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.”
And after all, this has its own logic, right? If the war is a meat grinder, then it is logical that its most effective butchers receive rewards and raises? Well, or simply remain unpunished-for all three years of the war there is not a single case when the Russian general was truly punished and even more so convicted of “excess losses”. Or, as they say, "for the irrational consumption of personnel."
But there are precedents of how “lean” commanders, albeit completely loyal to Putin, were sent to bars. About one of them - General Popov - I wrote in my last column .
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You can continue the list of Putin butchers for a very, very long time. Here, for example, General Andrei Serdyukov. In 2014, Serdyukov commanded “polite people” who captured the Ukrainian Crimea. Without loss. But when the forces of the Airborne Forces, under the command of Serdyukov, tried to capture Kiev and Gostoel Airport, the losses of paratroopers were so impressive that the general was sent to Syria. In exile . Take parades, swim in the sea and sunbathe in the sun. There are no exact amounts of losses in those assaults either, but in general, according to the beginning of 2025, the death of 3240 personnel paratroopers, including 654 officers, was confirmed .
Or another example-Suhrab Akhmedov is a former commander of the 20th Army, who ditched a huge number of people in December 2022, and already in February 2023 received epaulettes of Major General from the hands of the then Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu.
In addition to the already mentioned “Muradovs” there is another phenomenon in the Russian army - “Puzikovschina”.
Do not you think that the butchers in the Russian army have exclusively general ranks. This is not so - and here is a great example with the name and surname: the colonel with the call sign “Evil” - Igor Viktorovich Puzik.
The fame of the “angry” Puzik received in September 2024, when he sent a group of drone operators to a certain death, which included two volunteers respected in the Donbass with the call sign “Ernest” and “Goodwin”. There was a grand scandal, which included all the main Z-channels without exception. Even the Minister of Defense instructed to conduct an investigation. In the army, no one doubted the fault of Puzik, but the investigation was delayed. Puzika on TV began to personally wave Vladimir Solovyov, and the colonel himself continued to command the regiment.
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Well, I want to tell you a relatively fresh story as a final. At the end of January, the famous Z-Austor Yuri Podolyak told his readers that the village of Novogorovka, declared by the “liberated” village in the Lugansk region, was actually controlled by the Ukrainian army, and the Russian positions were one and a half kilometers from the village at that time. It would seem a small problem - the Russian military lie quite regularly. But no. Since there is a report on the capture of the village, but the village was not taken, the command of the 20th Army, as Podolyak wrote, sent more and more detachments to storm Novogorovka. Which died in "meat assaults" without the support of artillery and without intelligence.
On February 1, a video from under Novogorovka appeared in the Podolyak channel. On it, the wounded Russian military from the 84th intelligence battalion shoots himself in the head, because he understands that there will be no evacuation, which means either suicide or freeze to death. Yuri Podolyak under this video is asked by a rhetorical, in my opinion, the question: "How much more should the boys die so that this madness stops?"
Obviously, a lot. According to Z-channels and the Ukrainian side , the “meat assaults” continue, because the generals of the 20th Army value their positions much more than the lives of soldiers. And Novogorovka, as the APU was controlled, remained .
The author’s opinion may not coincide with the opinion of the editorial office.
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Author: Ivan Filippov Editor: Maxim Martemyanov Photo: Sergey Pivovarov / Imago / Scanpix