Posted on 08/14/2025 3:24:56 PM PDT by Kazan
As we await US-Russia Alaska summit tomorrow (15), the MSM continues their painful process of recognizing the realities on the ground in the battlefields of Ukraine.
One of the most difficult realities to face is the realization that literally millions of Ukrainian citizens will not fight for their country and hide from the conscription officers.
More than half a million Ukrainian men of military age have fled the country, while many others are still in hiding.
Add to that the desertion epidemic plaguing the Ukrainian forces, with hundreds of deserters abandoning their positions at the front every single day.
Russian forces have breached Ukrainian defenses near Dobropillia and advanced nine miles into territory around the city of Pokrovsk.
Ukraine deployed Azov brigade troops to face the attackers, but the situation remains ‘chaotic’.
The Telegraph reported:
“’The entire defense line is like a sieve’, wrote Stansislav Bunyatov, a Ukrainian serviceman and blogger, a sentiment echoed by Borden Krotevhych, former chief of the Azov Brigade. Krotevhych wrote: ‘This chaos has been growing for a long time, worsening with each passing day. A stable line of combat, as such, effectively doesn’t exist’.
Ukraine is ‘visibly losing the war’, says Konrad Muzkya, a Polish military analyst, largely because of the manpower crisis. So why won’t men like Pavlo, 35 and a new father, enlist? ‘Probably because I am afraid’, he says, with disarming honesty.
‘Afraid to die or, worse, lose my mind and become a burden to my family. Afraid to leave my family in poverty. Afraid that my daughter will grow up an orphan. Afraid of being captured and tortured for months’.”
At this point in the war, besides the increasing troop shortage, Ukrainians have also lost the drone supremacy they had in the beginning of the war.
“Worse, Ukraine’s infantry is shrinking, with desertions and casualties exceeding the 200,000 mobilized last year. Around 650,000 men of fighting age are thought to have fled Ukraine. Others hide, like Pavlo, or bribe draft officers and army psychiatrists for health exemptions.
[…] The desertion crisis is even starker. Unofficial estimates suggest more than 400 soldiers are abandoning the battlefield daily – exhausted by years of war, frustrated by rigid, top-down command, and disheartened by those avoiding service.”
Kiev command strips technical units to fill the gaps in the front line defenses, as vital mechanics and radar operators are sent to die as infantry.
I really need to get my oil changed tomorrow. I think I’ll go early so it’s not as crowded.
mucusmaxillary ain’t gonna like this. 🤡
EVERYBODY knows that there has been no Ukrainian casualties and Ivan is hanging on by it's fingernails...with millions of deaths and complete destruction of all of it's air,naval and ground forces.
Isn't that the story? It's not like there's a crack in the mindless propaganda from the neo-cons and the grifting democrats.
In fact I was told by a reliable source on this site that Ukraine had pushed Russians back from prior gains and was on the verge of taking all the territory the Russians have gained.
What a sad, pathetic page of history this is. Every dead Ukrainian and Russian man can be laid at the feet of the neocons, the RINOs like Romney and McCaine as well as the entire crime organization that the democrat party, as well as the libs in the State Dept and the money grubbers of BlackRock, Vanguard and State street..... all daring that psychopath Putin to invade, because all Russia is "just a gas station with nukes"
I hope there's a warm place in hell for them... all of them
Maxipad will say it’s Ruzzian Propaganda.
The whole world should have been at war against Zelensky and his Nazi regime, that little pizzant dictator.
He took away their elections, their freedom of speech, closed the churches, and sent hundreds of thousands of their people into a meatgrinder.
And he stole gazillions of US dollars through the commie Biden regime. Hang them all.
> Every dead Ukrainian and Russian man can be laid at the feet of the neocons, the RINOs
That was their goal - dead white Christians. Mission accomplished.
Don’t worry. Like Europe, whatever remains of Ukraine can be filled with Muslims.
I hope that Trump is also aware of this situation despite Rubio’s false briefings.
Zelensky is Jewish. His grandparents fought the Nazis in World War II. His great grandparents were killed by the Nazis. Yet the Jewish Zelensky is head of a Nazi regime?
Riiiiight.
Been true for years. But it doesn’t seem to stop them. Russia has a similar problem but is still able to outman Ukraine.
That was their goal - dead white Christians. Mission accomplished.
I would like to see the fighting stopped today. How about you?
There are plenty of fighting age Ukrainian men in Poland, driving around in nice cars. The natives are annoyed.
fake news.
Russia is on its last leg
“Ukraine is ‘visibly losing the war’, says Konrad Muzkya, a Polish military analyst, largely because of the manpower crisis. So why won’t men like Pavlo, 35 and a new father, enlist? ‘Probably because I am afraid’, he says, with disarming honesty. ‘Afraid to die or, worse, lose my mind and become a burden to my family. Afraid to leave my family in poverty. Afraid that my daughter will grow up an orphan. Afraid of being captured and tortured for months’.””
Which is why he’s now doing his part to put an end to this war.
“Don’t worry. Like Europe, whatever remains of Ukraine can be filled with Muslims.”
That will certainly be the case if they join the EU, simply because WOMEN run the EU, many of them childless.
“The whole world should have been at war against Zelensky and his Nazi regime”
GREAT POINT, and not only is Soros Jewish and spent WW2 ratting out other Jews for the Nazis, TO THIS DAY, he has no regrets about doing it.
There are plenty of fighting age Ukrainian men in Poland, driving around in nice cars. The natives are annoyed.
Poland to deport 57 Ukrainians and six Belarusians after Warsaw concert trouble
This article, like others, explain why YouCrayne can’t go on offense and take their land back from Ruzzia.
If you think it’s fake news tell us Zelensky won’t go on offense and take his
land back?
Gee, I thought The Telegraph was on their side...
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