Cannon Fodder: What happened to Russia’s elite ‘Black Berets’? - BBC World Service Documentaries

In October 2022, Russia sent men from the elite 155th Marine Brigade—the “Black Berets”— to take the town of Vuhledar in Ukraine.
Ramaz Gorgadze, a young aspiring TikTok rapper, was among them. Before the assault, he sent a last message to his mother, and then went missing.

Days later, a rare protest letter from the Black Berets emerged online. The men claimed that “inept” commanders threw them into an “incomprehensible offensive” and called them “meat”.

What happened to Ramaz and his comrades of the 155?

Using only publicly available footage and testimonies, BBC Eye shows how glaring tactical mistakes caused one of the highest