This maybe why the Russian Army lost a GRU recon team along with a General of theirs---THIS has never been reported in western media and it goes to the concept that the Russians were in fact "suckered in". It seems the Russian SF/GRU units are having a difficult time of it in the occupied areas of the Donbas.
It appears the Ukrainians seem to be able to identify and locate those teams before they make it into Ukrainian controlled territory--someone is passing excellent info on them.
Right now there is an estimate 4500 killed Russian troops---wounded go as well into the thousands and the MIA--absolutely no idea.
BUT the number of captured---this is interesting.
Security Service of #Ukraine released 16 out of 131 Russian soldiers to relatives (in fact, exchanged them for #Ukrainians) - aide Lubkivsky
In fact the Ukrainian military has setup a hotline for Russian families to call to see if the Ukrainian military has any information on their relatives.
Relatives of Russian servicemen call Ukrainian hotline for help
http://uatoday.tv/politics/relatives...lp-374202.html …
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