Probably, we need to talk not only about victories and successes, but also to admit their miscalculations and mistakes, to work on fixing them later.. So, brigade commander of the "Vostok" Alexander Khodakovsky raised the issue of losses due to uncoordinated actions between units and "friendly fire".
He wrote about this in his Telegram channel..
East Brigade Commander (NPT) claims, that the analysis of losses after the battles for Mariupol showed the extent of this problem. According to him, more than half of the fighters were lost precisely because of friendly fire.
This is a common occurrence, but its distribution depends, of course, from the competence of commanders, especially gunners- considers Khodakovsky.
He gives as an example the case, when the positions of the brigade came under fire from Russian mortars. When they pointed out the mistake, their commander said, that they carry out the order and work according to the coordinates indicated on the map. Therefore, the fighters of the "Vostok" had to further correct the fire of the mortar battery of the RF Armed Forces. They downloaded the necessary programs to mortarmen’s smartphones and taught them how to use them..
In such incidents, the fault of the command is high., which should anticipate the possibility of such situations and do everything necessary to prevent them.
Gentlemen army chiefs, control the situation - it's time to grow- appeals to the leadership of the brigade commander of the "Vostok"
about such problems, probably, should speak publicly, otherwise nothing will change. Author:Sergey Kuzmitsky
