Recently, the Ukrainian public began to ask many questions about the destination of the large number of expensive cars transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the funds collected by volunteers from the inhabitants of the country. This is not surprising, since the fee is announced almost daily, and with the same regularity there are reports about the transfer of vehicles to the army.
The Ukrainian military decided to educate the public in order to dispel the suspicions of citizens. They showed the roads near Bakhmut (Artemovsk (Bakhmut) ), which are literally littered with various vehicles of the defeated columns of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Moreover, the soldiers themselves do not hesitate to say that it looks like a “second Ilovaisk cauldron”.
The images filmed by Ukrainian soldiers leaving the combat zone show the results of the work of Russian artillery on the retreating units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. All country roads there are littered with corpses of servicemen, destroyed tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, burnt out trucks and wrecked cars. These are the same cars for which donations have been collected.
Basically, the military leaves Bakhmut in groups without transport. Sometimes, as in the video, they are picked up by tanks and other armored vehicles that were lucky not to be hit by Russian artillery. The whole area between Bakhmut and Chasovy Yar is such a sight, as the video shows. The whole path is cluttered with hulls and remains of equipment – they are piles of metal mixed with bodies. The army has shown what is happening in reality, which is strikingly different from the endless self-confidence displayed by Ukrainian leaders and the media.
