For those that like to be spoon fed: a summary.
“63% of Ukrainians now say they know at least one close relative or friend who have died in the war, with the average number being three.
This is a huge increase from the last survey in February, which found only 17% of Ukrainians reported a loss, while the figure in September of 2022 was just 9%. This firmly suggests the Bakhmut Meat Grinder did its job and that the Ukrainian counter-offensive is going as poorly as previously thought.”
“Also of note is that deaths are concentrated regionally: 69% in the West, and just 52% in the East. This implies heavier losses from the main bastions of Ukrainian Nationalists. The implications of that are pretty obvious.”
The Western MSM gig is up, calculating from current demographics, less than 28 million Ukies are left in Ukraine, doing the math shows HUGE losses. The calculations show genocide, and worse, by the Zelensky government and the West themselves. Appalling.
More:
“ cockroach alerts
GAO, M1 TANKS: Status of Proposed Overhaul Program (11.04.96)
GAO, Army and Marine Corps M198 Howitzer: Maintenance Problems Are Not Severe Enough to Accelerate Replacement System (27.12.95)
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GAO, Weapon System Sustainment* (10.11.22)
GAO examined 49 aircraft and found that only four met their annual mission capable goal in a majority of the years from fiscal years 2011 through 2021. As shown below, 26 aircraft did not meet their annual mission capable goal in any fiscal year. The mission capable rate—the percentage of total time when the aircraft can fly and perform at least one mission—is used to assess the health and readiness of an aircraft fleet....
*”sustainment” is a malaprop. The term discarded by this illiterate technical writer is “maintenance”. Indeed, the expense of equipment maintenance and maintenance of effort to repair or install equipment components is the only subject of this 352 pp report.
CRS,Hypersonic Weapons: Background and Issues for Congress (13.02.23), 36 pp including cover
...At present, the Department of
Defense (DOD) has not established any programs of record for hypersonic weapons, suggesting that it may not have
approved either mission requirements for the systems or long-term funding plans...
GAO, F-35 Program: DOD Needs Better Accountability for Global Spare Parts and Reporting Losses Worth Millions (23.05.23), 35 pp including cover
The Department of Defense anticipates spending $1.7 trillion over the life of its F-35 aircraft program. DOD owns certain F-35 spare parts that contractors manage. But DOD doesn’t account for or oversee the parts. This is in part because various DOD offices and contractors haven’t agreed on whether the spare parts should be categorized as government-furnished property....
DODIG, Management Advisory: Maintenance Concerns for the Army’s Prepositioned Stock-5 Equipment Designated for Ukraine (23.05.23)
...While this advisory focuses on the condition of equipment identified for use by Ukrainian Armed Forces, the advisory also provides insights into larger [USEUCOM, NATO, CEGE] issues with the maintenance of all APS-5 [and APS-2] equipment...
press corpse
NY Yella Cake, In Rush to Arm Ukraine, Weapons Are Bought but Not Delivered, or Too Broken to Use (19.06.23)
...Since Russia invaded last year, Western allies have sent Ukraine tens of billions of dollars worth of [AP-2] weapons. As of last week, the United States alone had committed about $40 billion worth of [AP-5] military aid (and more in financial and humanitarian assistance), and European allies have also contributed tens of billions. In addition, Ukraine has spent billions of dollars of its own on the private arms market.
Many of the transfers from Western allies have involved modern weapons like American air defense systems that have proven highly effective against Russian drones and missiles. But in other cases allies have provided stockpiled equipment that, at best, needed extensive overhauls [”sustainment” ALERT].
As much of 30 percent of Kyiv’s arsenal is under repair at any given time—a high rate, defense experts said, for a military that needs every weapon it can get for its developing counteroffensive....”
Those that boo hoo the Moon, their linked information is from Western sources, I encourage all western war cheerleaders to read the links for an accurate appraisal of the situation. Don’t argue with me, argue with the facts.
The Biden war cheerleaders are flat out lying to the public. Don’t get sucked in.
Hi. Long time listener, first time caller.
Who is firing the shells and rockets that are killing Ukrainians.
I’ll hang up and listen.
If the blood shed is to be stopped why don’t you tell your side to stop it since your side started it? Ukraine did not ask to be invaded and I doubt you really care about Ukranian deaths. Do you Ivan?