Posted on 08/21/2023 7:20:27 AM PDT by bimboeruption
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 31 vehicles in the battle for the village of Staromayorsk alone, including 23 mine-protected armored vehicles, given to them by NATO countries,” reports Julian Röpke of pro-war German newspaper Bild.
On Bild TV, Röpke showed Russian images of the destroyed armor, saying that Bild had been able to verify the veracity of the images. The destruction caused to Ukrainian forces in the course of liberating just one of six villages they had taken in the direction of Mariupol in South Ukraine was “incredible”, Röpcke said. The destroyed vehicles were “mainly western-supplied vehicles”, Röpcke noted.
Ukraine has lost 9 out of 18 German-supplied Leopard 2A6 tanks, according to Bild. While some tanks may possibly be repaired, maintenance facilities are 1000 miles to the west and some tanks are still trapped under enemy fire.
“This does raise the question of how long Ukraine can keep this up,” Röpcke said, who has been one of the main saber-rattlers for the NATO-Russia war in Europe. “We know that way more than 30 vehicles were destroyed seizing the village of Robotyne (Robotina), which still hasn’t been completely liberated.”
“If Ukraine is losing 20 to 30 vehicles per village, and has a total of about 500 western-supplied tanks and APCs, you can do the math and figure out Ukraine will not be liberating southern Ukraine at that pace.”
“Despite the pledge of over 100 Leopard, Challenger and Abrams main battle tanks in January 2023, neither Germany, Great Britain, nor the USA have followed up on their tank deliveries.” In contrast, the Russian army brings between 20 and 50 new or upgraded main battle tanks a month, Bild reports.
Springer Publishing’s Bild tabloid, the largest newspaper in Germany, has been one of the leading cheerleaders for endless war in Ukraine since Day 1 of the Russian invasion. Springer is majority-owned by New York-based KKR & Co. (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts). Gen. David Petraeus is chairman of KKR Global Institute. Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner served as board member of NATO think tanks Institute for Strategic Dialogue and Aspen Institute, the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group and the World Economic Forum.
Russian sources estimate Ukraine lost 7,000 men taking the villages of Staromayosk and Urozhaynoye. According to the Russian Ministry of Defence figures, Ukraine has lost approx. 54,000 men since the start of the “counter-offensive” June 4, with 1400 casualties last weekend alone.
As more and more Ukrainians seek to escape the “Meat Grinder” by bribing draft board officials, President Volodymir Zelenski fired the heads of all the military recruitment centers and replaced them with wounded combat veterans, RFE/RL reports.
“Amid a war that has killed tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, a report that a $4.35-million seaside villa in Marbella had been purchased by Yevhen Borysov, the head of the Odesa regional military enlistment office — along with an office in the Spanish resort city and a luxury car — pushed public anger to a point where the government apparently decided it had to act”, US government-controlled RFE/RL reports.
According to Valeriy Bolhan of USAID-tied Center for Public Investigations, as many as 50,000 people had paid off military recruiters in Odessa with $5,000 to avoid conscription or go abroad.
US officials are “increasingly critical of Ukraine’s counteroffensive strategy and gloomy about its prospect of success,” the Financial Times reports, “deepening tensions between Kyiv and Washington at the most critical point in the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion.”
“I don’t think that you’ll hear an argument from anyone that this is going well right now or that this is heading to a place that people would view as good, but there is not much by way of plan B,” said Samuel Charap, a senior political scientist at the Rand Corporation.
“It’s been about 10 km of advance at most no matter where you look in this offensive,” Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace told FT.
Even in the face of massive casualties, Biden Regime operatives “encouraged Ukraine to be less risk-averse and fully commit its forces to the main axis of the counteroffensive in the south so it would have a chance of breaking through Russian lines to reach the Sea of Azov, effectively cutting Russia’s land bridge in southern Ukraine to Crimea”, FT writes.
Even if Congress authorizes the latest package of Ukraine funding requested by the White House, “some US officials and analysts say it is unlikely that Washington will be able to offer the same level of lethal assistance to Ukraine next year, given the looming presidential election and munitions manufacturers’ longer-term schedule to increase production,” FT writes.
Republican congressman Andy Harris told a town-hall meeting in Maryland the counteroffensive had “failed”, FT reported. “Is this more [of] a stalemate? Should we be realistic about it? I think we probably should,” Harris told constituents in Abingdon, Maryland, 25 miles north-east of Baltimore. “I’ll be blunt, it’s failed.” He was also pessimistic about the course of the war, saying, “I’m not sure it’s winnable anymore.”
If that happens, will the cheerleaders disappear from this forum, or cheer on further US assistance to suppress the opposition that springs up?
ZELENSKY need not worry—every tank, plane, pick-up truck and cannon can be replaced by a better one with just a phone call to Biden. He’s getting the F-16s he wanted. I bet if he asked we would transfer an aircraft carrier to him —all he must do is cry on TV. Notice he has gotten all he wants—in time. In time we will give him nukes, B-52s, Subs, Rockets better than North Korea. When they run out of Ukrainians they will just use Poles—lots of them to fill the graveyards. When they are gone (or wise up) their are lots of Turks, and other people from the 3rd World to fill the ranks. We will train them for free—Must Stop evil Putin! We are on the cusp of WW III.
Send more troops into the meatgrinder!
The trenches are already filled with rotting bodies but at least the Ukes know those bodies already triggered the booby traps left by the Russians.
So keep urging more slaughter from your keyboard. Washington and London thank you for your support.
Forward!" he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
The general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side
- Pink Floyd
**All of this just to hide corruption and money laundering.**
And by-oh labs.
Great. Let both corrupt non-NATO nations fight to the death in an "officially" non-NATO war.
As the old t-shirt from our Vietnam ear had as a slogan, "Kill them all, and let God sort it out."
It's actually a centuries' old notion: " 'Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. is a phrase reportedly spoken by the commander of the Albigensian Crusade, prior to the massacre at Béziers on 22 July 1209. A direct translation of the Medieval Latin phrase is Kill them. The Lord knows those that are his own'."
After the whole thing blows, some one is sure to pivk up the pieces.
Last one who wants to die for pedo Joe and his crack-head son, please raise your hand!
It is now more than obvious, for many reasons.
Ukraine 1991-2023 RIP
The Russian aliens must be stopped.
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I stopped believing in Unicorns many years ago.
>Ukraine will soon run out of warm male bodies to fight the Russians.
Then Ukraine people will turn on Zelensky.<
WHITE male bodies.
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More importantly, Orthodox Christians. Both side’s soldiers overwhelmingly are Christians, unlike Zelensky’s government.
Biden fighting Russia to the very last Ukrainian life.
There is a handful here raising their hand while pointing to che children (not theirs) sitting off to the side.
>Ukraine 1991-2023 RIP
The problem is really that the globalist faction took over Ukraine in 2014; so really
Ukraine 1991-2014 RIP
NWO-rukaine 2014-2023 (terminal)
and, as happened to the USSR when we bankrupted it through military action, EU+USA following right after, unless we get rid of the people running that show — and it’s not one party, it’s many of them, across many nations.
“Actually, one woman.”
That woman you are referring to is just a front, along with her cohorts, doing what their masters tell them to do. (Military/Industrial Complex which likes wars, big business interests who would like to go back to the halcyon days of Yeltsin corruption, etc.)
Old tradition - find a Prince and in return for his protection serve as a front for his dirty work.
Bears repeating.
They are just murdering white people and that is their plan.
Yet, there are still idiots that believe this war is stalemate. No, the Russians are grinding the Ukrainian military into hamburger.
>More importantly, Orthodox Christians. Both side’s soldiers overwhelmingly are Christians, unlike Zelensky’s government.<
Zelensy and his ilk want the Christian Slavs destroyed so their own could repopulate Europe with muzzies.
“If Ukraine is losing 20 to 30 vehicles per village, and has a total of about 500 western-supplied tanks and APCs, you can do the math and figure out Ukraine will not be liberating southern Ukraine at that pace.”
Except, the Russian Federation is loosing equipment and personal at alarming rates. Equipment like tanks at almost 4:1, Artilery at 2:1, APC like 6:1, and people at 6-8:1. Even when Russia is on the defensive side, the losses are at least 2:1 for the Russians in equipment.
I know, I know, the Russians have HUGE amounts of Equipment and personnel to waste. What’s a million young soldiers anyway, they lost 29 million in the great war!
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