Khepesh Mon Aug 10, 2015 12:46 pm
Hm, People can make of this what they will.
This article from Donbass Media is about the Karer quarry incident and has eye witness reports. https://donbass.media/5063-karer-gorlovka-9-avgusta-2015-goda/
Yesterday the casualty figures swung back and forth from terrible to not so bad, except for the victims of course. I amended what I was posting and went back from "not so bad", to bad based on a report from Gorlovka hospital. The source I used here, a nurse at the hospital, was the same as in January who stated that more than fifty wounded had arrived at Gorlovka hospital on the bad Sunday while the official number was only about seven or ten. In the following days it was shown that about 76 wounded were received at the hospital. In this article it is stated that one died, which seems not to be disputed, and also three seriously wounded. This is the official number, one dead and three woundeed, yet here it is stated that a further 27 were less seriously wounded and are not being included in the casualty figures, why not, if true, needs explaining. These "missing" 27 now make the total casualties for all Gorlovka yesterday to about 40, which fits with early estimates of 30 - 50. It will sound cruel perhaps, but it is not in the interest of DNR to supress civilian casualty numbers, or it would not be in normal circumstances, but wierd shit is going on here and people are angry with the statement yesterday by Basurin praising OSCE for their work and keeping casualties down. It is one thing to seem to lay a trap for ukrops, but another to seem to be weak, and this is the growing perception, and right or wrong, that is bad for morale.
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