... And a Christmas prayer request:
In order for Ukraine to be able to stand, Gracious God give Ukraine Peace and Victory! Provide the Ukraine warriors your protection, And may all to have a welcomed convey from the battle to return both Ukrainian an Russian home for Christmas.
Update from Ukraine | Putin is Burning his army in Krynky Village | Crazy Ruzzian Losses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQWWir5kJjk
Militaryland news: The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 20th December 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time)
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-665-summary/
[NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday]
Recap Deployment Map changes – Week 50 December 18, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/recap-deployment-map-changes-week-50/
*** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front!
https://militaryland.net/maps/
Ukraine, I mean the CIA, ought to be marching into Moscow by now!
What’s the holdup?
Corruption and fear are hindering effort to rebuild army
POKROVSK, Ukraine—During a break from fighting the Russians, an avuncular rifleman recalled how he was going for a haircut one day when he was press-ganged into joining the Ukrainian army.
Three recruitment officials accosted the stocky, gray-haired 47-year-old outside the barber shop in his small hometown, ordered him to get in a car and detained him for two days in a dark room at the local draft center until he had signed up.
“I got my haircut at the training camp,” he said.
Now known by his military call sign Dubok, the former electrical engineer offered to serve as a technician in the rear. “But to get that job, you have to pay bribes,” he said. Instead, he was sent to join an infantry unit depleted by months of hard fighting. His battalion of the 47th Mechanized Brigade is defending the city of Avdiivka against waves of Russian assaults, the biggest current battle in Russia’s relentless war on Ukraine.
“Physically, I can’t handle this,” Dubok said of front-line combat. “I’m deeply disappointed that I’m no longer 20.”
Ukraine needs to rebuild its battered army. The infantry, which bears the brunt of deaths and injuries, is chronically short of men after nearly two years of resisting Russia’s full-blown invasion.
The most highly motivated fighters volunteered early. Those who haven’t been killed or wounded often say they are exhausted. Ukraine now relies on the draft—and sometimes on rounding up men—to replenish the ranks.
This is good news. It means Zeleskyyyy the swindler doesn’t need any more pallets of U.S. taxpayer money.
SnowStorm | Russian Breakthrough In Liman. Frontlines Are Falling Apart. Military Summary 2023.12.24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qr2Tictz2U
Must be a bot
Ukraine Conducts Last “Honest” Mobilization. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.12.24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dn2jj5wSAA
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I’m beginning to wonder if Putin isn’t a communist agent working efficiently for China. After all, he is killing Russia’s youth (not from Moscow though) five times more than he kills Ukrainians. (70.000 Ukrainian deaths and 360.000 Russian deaths in less that 2 years of war! Putin admitted to those number / see link down below.
China is evidently rejoicing over the extent of the depleting of Russia’s army.
To continue the humiliation Russia is now also forced to buy Chinese goods, which boosts China’s economy at exactly the right moment for China where it needed it the most. Russia is also selling its oil to China nearly for free - totally underpriced, thanks to West’s sanctions.
Further, thanks to Putin NATO is now in full expansion mode, fully revitalized. Europe’s and Americas war production facilities are now born-again. FULL PRODUCTION!
All this is a disaster for Russia, especially in the longer term. It will crumble because of all its expensive warmongering, and when that happens... China will just grab large parts of eastern Russia which they consider to be theirs anyway since loooong time ago. Putin is saving China’s economy while draining his very own country...
as Putin’s decisions weakens Russia and strengthen China, every single day now.
The Russian Patriots are just in the beginning of understanding-process and “China-Putin” has enslaved Russia to China. The Russian patriot-bears (the silent majority of the Russian citizens) will eliminate Putin sooner than later. Only that will end the war.
LINK:
Russian president Vladimir Putin may have accidentally admitted to losing over 360,000 troops in Moscow’s war with Ukraine during an annual four-hour press conference.
