In an interview with a Western publication, Ukrainian soldiers said that the retreat, which was presented as pre-planned, was not organized.
The retreat was panicked and chaotic, and some units did not even know about the order to leave the city.
In interviews, interviewed Ukrainian soldiers of the 3rd assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that the order to retreat should have been given earlier.
Due to the lack of timeliness, difficulties arose, and Ukrainian Armed Forces units suffered additional losses.
The respondents are young people aged 20 to 24 years.
As a Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier with the call sign “Major” reported, the column that was moving in front of his detachment came under Russian artillery fire. Many died.
As another serviceman reported, his unit, which was defending the Avdeevka coke and chemical plant, was supposed to begin to retreat.
But the 2nd Presidential Brigade approached, which had no contact with the command. They did not know about the retreat and forbade the fighters to retreat first.
Because of this, we had to stay in position for another hour, which almost jeopardized the evacuation of the unit.
Ukrainian soldiers believe that the order should have been given earlier. If the command had not decided to do this, it would have been impossible to leave the position.
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