Via Twitter user @BarracudaVol1Eight years ago, an elite Russian parachute regiment played a central role in a massacre of Ukrainian soldiers. The 331st Guards Airborne Regiment has been significantly damaged in fighting around Kyiv. As Ukrainian troops chase behind Russian units retreating from the Kyiv suburbs, they’ve discovered hundreds of dead bodies. The Ukrainian army captured 10 members of the 331st in Ilovaisk, helping officials in Kyiv to confirm the regiment’s role in the massacre. The lesson, for Russian leaders who don’t seem keen to learn anything from their disastrous war on Ukraine, might be this.

Source: Forbes April 04, 2022 05:08 UTC