A soldier's sobering letter: Hell; The Russians knew exactly

As the BBC reports, several hundred Ukrainian soldiers have been sent to that part of Ukraine as part of a counter-offensive launched six months ago.
Under relentless Russian fire, that soldier spent several weeks on the Russian-occupied side of the river as Ukraine tried to establish a bridgehead around the village of Krink.
The BBC, which reported his words, did not want to reveal his identity in order to protect him. As they say, they communicated with him through the WhatsApp application. On that occasion, the soldier revealed to them that inexperienced soldiers had been sent against the Russians, who had the feeling that their commanders had abandoned them.
"The entire river crossing is under constant fire. I have seen boats with my shipmates on board simply disappear into the water after being hit, lost forever in the Dnieper. We have to carry everything with us - aggregates, fuel and food. When you install a bridgehead, you need a lot of everything, but there was no planned supply for this area," said the soldier.
"We thought that the enemy would flee after we arrived and that we would then peacefully transport everything we needed, but it was not like that," he added.
"When we arrived at the shore, the enemy was waiting. The Russians we managed to catch said their forces had been tipped off about our landing, so when we got there, they knew exactly where to find us. They threw everything at us - artillery, mortars and a flamethrower system. I thought I would never get out of there alive," he then continued his confession.
However, according to him, several hundred marines managed to dig in, partly with the help of Ukrainian artillery fire from the higher, western banks of the Dnieper, which separates the Russian-occupied...