Russia’s 331st Guards Parachute Regiment is considered “the best of the best”, but BBC Newsnight has been tracing the casualties as the unit battles through Ukraine.
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The regiment's commanding officer – Col Sergei Sukharev – died in mid-March. His chief of staff and numerous other officers have also fallen.
The regiment previously served in the Balkans, Chechnya and the 2014 Russia invasion in the Donbas.
Tracking the unit through Ukraine, Newsnight’s diplomatic and defence editor Mark Urban looks at the outpouring of grief and anger from Russia in response to the devastating losses. What went wrong for the once-elite regiment? And what does its fate tell us about Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
This film was produced by Maria Jevstafjeva and Louis Harris-White.
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A Nazi makes a speech for a Nazi.
Why do Russians consider themselves superior to Ukrainians?
0:28 sounds like every liberal and anqueefa pasty protestor in the United States.
So many Western Russian apologists trying to make out the VDV didn't get wrecked.
His life was taken because he was invading another country, don't go were you are not welcome you will go home in a pine box.
History shows that airborne troops despite being elite are in fact very fragile to a determined defence.
I’ll join the fight to fight Ukraine by being Russian
I’m American.. and I agree
Nazi’s
At the end of any war the truth always wins. We saw it in WW2 for
example. Mr. Paul Josep Goebbels also tried hard to win the narrative
but lost. Now, 70 years later, another "Paul Josep" (no, I am not making
this up guys, the 2 Propagandaministers share the Same name, go figure)
also tries to change the narrative to benefit Na-zism. Mr. Paul Josep
Borrel also could not win the hearts and minds, the EU is losing the narrative, despite of investing
billions of EU's tax payers euros in that matter.
Intro music is angels singing.
Russia are bullies who just want to invade other countries throughout history. Even thier tv presenters are he'll bent on war. But when they fight they are made to look useless LOL. Ukraines quality is clearly visible. If Ukraine matched russia for weapons numbers and troop numbers this would have been over. Ukraine doing a massive job against x3 size army. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧
More to die hopefully
Кострома гордится своими героями!!!
Russians thought, and some morons still think, that Russian speaking people in Ukraine want to belong to Russia. So they thought the local people will help them in this Fascist attack to Kiev and all will be over in three days, like the prisoners tell in interview.
The joker president make human life joked if he didn't accept the war no one have died..may all soldiers rest in peace 🕊️
follow up : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jrS1xpbNFA
and another ones gone and another one's gone and another one bites the dust
Not that ELITE when they end up dead! Compared to the SAS, they are just playing at being soldiers. They were useless soldiers, just 'jobs for the boys'!
They thought they were elite until they met the Ukraine warriors.
Sorry to those thousands and thousands of Russian soldiers died for nothing. Just for Putin ?
Good Russian fascists is dead one! God Bless people of Ukraine and Army 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸!
You cant compare this war with Afghanistan or iraq there both highly trained and proffesional armies who are armed to the teeth this war is only a warning how modern conventinal war is it is huge casulties and a nightmare in logistics
Now Sergei Sukharev is in hell where all warmongers go after they die.
name of song?
War is so horrible but fascinating in a hard-to-look-away way
That Putin… doesn't get what it means to say history repeats itself first Afghan now it's going to be Ukraine loss of long years of fighting young lives are lost you idiot Kremlin communist president learn from this Russians on the motherland
Funny how they call Ukrainian's Nazis yet….here the Russians are, acting like the Nazis…… hmmmmmmmm
The butchers of Bucha?
Sława Ukraina Sława Żeleński wielki CZŁOWIEK Prezydent UKRAINY Sława Ukraina Sława Zachód Sława NATO USA 💙💛💙💛💙💛💙👍👍👍👍💪💪💪💪❤❤❤❤
And yet Putin has used these brave soldiers as bullet fodder !
Don't care if they are elite, as long as they die without harming any Ukrainian civilians they can rot for invading a sovereign country.
Rumor has it he died cursing Putin’s name.
DELUSIONAL PRIMITIVE PEOPLE
Russia made mistakes and paid dearly in the early days of the war. Now, it’s totally different. Everyday Ukrainian soldiers as well foreign fighters are dying by the scores and hundreds.
Failure? We’ll see if this “documentary” will age well.