One of their best drone pilots filmed a video to be released after he died. In it, he said his commanding officer had seized and sold the equipment he’d crowd funded. Then he’d put this man in a four-man suicide squad.
This was not in a news report but from one of the Ukrainian soldiers relatives. It is a terrible war. Very stupid, very unnecessary.
The Russians... not so much.
It was reported to me, a Ukrainian soldier said, “Yes, there is a lot of corruption. But what choice do we have? If we lose we die and lose everything. If we die and win, at least our families have a chance.
The great tragedy of this war is that that is precisely false. The Ukrainians are dying en masse for exactly nothing so far as their own lives and wellbeing are concerned. Actually less than nothing, insofar as the autocratic EU regime is even more repressive than the far-less-than-perfect Russians.
It's not as if the Russian plan has been to invade and enslave the Ukrainian people or commit genocide. Anyone paying attention or who has bothered to learn the backstory on this conflict knows better. The SMO was motivated by the mistreatment of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, unleashed by the EU/NATO-backed coup that sent Russian security concerns through the roof. Safeguarding their borders and Russian people through the objectives of the SMO to take the eastern provinces does not entail any hardship for any Ukrainian citizen. Nor is the Ukrainian citizen threatened by denazification - rather the opposite.
At some point the negotations will happen and be completed, and even the most ardent Russia-haters will see this is the outcome of the negotiations, and realize the slaughter of the Ukrainians was literally for nothing more than pursuing the depraved and Orwellian agendas of the western globalists.