Andy Milburn of the Mozart Group told Newsweek his team won't stop operations despite direct threats from Wagner mercenaries.
. Previously used as a deniable, shadow arm of Russian foreign policy, the group has emerged as one of Moscow's more effective and feared formations in Ukraine.
"We're the only ones that are regularly posting pictures and footage and reports of what is going on, which is an absolute annihilation of Ukrainian frontline towns to an extent that I have not seen in the media," Milburn said. "They've got units on overwatch, we can be engaged by direct fire within up to four kilometers, and they have drones overhead and aircraft," Milburn said."We're like mice trying to find our way through a maze with this giant, malevolent cat pouncing and whacking at every potential pathway."
Above, military medics wait in a bomb shelter during heavy shelling and airstrikes by Russian forces close to their position at a frontline field hospital on December 5, 2022, outside Bakhmut, Ukraine. The battle for Bakhmut has become one of the most brutal in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Winter has turned an already inhospitable environment into a nightmare, Milburn said.
"They've been taking extraordinarily high casualties," Milburn said of the units training with Mozart."The numbers you are reading in the media about 70 percent and above casualties being routine are not exaggerated." Beyond the immediate dangers, a lack of funds is a pressing concern, according to Milburn."I'm terrified we're going to run out of steam early in the new year," he explained, noting that sourcing, repairing, and replacing damaged vehicles is the biggest expense.
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