Complete ruins and death: Ukraine's Rabotino village no longer exists

The village of Rabotino , which became the most famous point of last year’s counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, no longer exists today. Now it is a continuous heap of ruins in the bare steppe, where corpses of Russian invaders and burnt equipment of the invaders lie between heaps of broken stones. A visual understanding of what the territory of the village looks like now is provided by a video shot from a drone by soldiers of the 3rd Spartan operational brigade. The Ukrainian monitoring project Deep State notes that these images illustrate Russian war tactics. “Everything around is strewn with corpses, burnt Russian equipment, but they continue to climb like zombies endlessly. You can see the consequences of “banzai attacks” in the form of a knocked out unit, or single remains of monsters in trenches, pits and ruins. It’s difficult for the Russians to gain a foothold there, because they They themselves razed everything to the ground,” analysts say. It is noted that the situation around the former village of Rabotino remains very complex and dynamic. “It’s just a continuous gray area, ruins and death that Russians bring with it,” they say in Deep State. According to data in open sources, the village of Rabotino was founded in 1869, although it existed as a farm at least half a century before that. In those days, tsarism actively promoted the settlement of the Black Sea region by various peoples, but this village was precisely Ukrainian. According to the 2001 census, about 480 people lived in the village.