A friend of mine is in the Georgian Legion and rotating in and out of Bakhmut. We get emails from him semi weekly.

A friend of mine is in the Georgian Legion and rotating in and out of Bakhmut. We get emails from him semi weekly. Basically it sounds like there are two main trenches running along the road to the city and the Russians just keep sending waves of Wagnerites up them to die. Ukies pound them with Arty/HIMARS, then drones are sent in to finish off the survivors. Then they send in infantry to mop off the stranglers. Rinse and repeat. By the time his unit gets there most of the survivors have shot themselves or blown themselves up with grenades so they don’t end up killing many themselves. They just spend most of their times climbing through mud and trash and body parts. He says there are some parts of the trenches where the bodies are stacked 2 or 3 high from multiple different waves. The worst is when it rains and the mud washes away so you can smell the rotting flesh of the older kills beneath the fresh kills. He said last time he was running through the trench when it was muddy and he tripped as his boot caught on something deep in the mud - when he dug it out turns out his bootlace got stuck on a piece of human rib cage that was buried 2 feet in the mud. Sounds like the smell is truly unbearable. I’m starting to think war isn’t all it’s cracked up to be bros