Posted on 05/17/2023 8:24:16 PM PDT by Kazan
Over the last week Ukrainian officials have been insisting that the long-promised counter offensive is delayed until the West can pony up more tanks, ammunition, artillery and other weapons. But, there has been a noticeable uptick in Ukrainian attacks on Russian positions. These assaults apparently were carried out as a symbolic gesture to appease Western demands that Ukraine do something to the Russians.
You can tell that the Ukrainian attacks have been a bust by the very subdued reporting of the activity in the Western press. John Helmer of Dances With Bears provides a grim summary of the effort:
On May 12, in the first day of their scheme, 1,725 Ukrainian men were killed on the Donbass front. This is the worst day’s military casualty rate since the US coup in Kiev launched the war in February 2014.
According to the Financial Times, this killing didn’t happen. Instead, the headline reads: “Ukrainian counter-offensive takes shape with the first gains around Bakhmut.” The Washington Post announced likewise: “How Ukrainian forces denied Russia victory in Bakhmut by Victory Day”. The New York Times repeated: “Ukraine’s Advances Near Bakhmut Expose Rifts in Russian Forces”. According to this propaganda, these successes were bloodless on the Ukrainian side.
A NATO forces veteran observes: “An entire regiment has been destroyed. This is cynical trading in flesh.
In fact, what happened on the battlefield was dozens of Ukrainian troop movements in different directions along a front of more than ninety kilometres.
According to the NATO veteran, “this is more propaganda offensive than real offensive. They scraped together enough gear, ammunition and manpower to make a barely audible tactical bang. It’s a punch with nothing behind it. Those guys are already dead. This isn’t even wishful thinking. It’s cynical trading in flesh.”
Helmer’s report coincides with recent postings on Ukrainian Telegram channels of row after row of fresh graves in three Ukrainian cities — Khmelnytskyi, Cherkassy and Transcarpathia. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then these video clips are worth a library of books.
https://youtu.be/1hTT4uYWqH0
https://youtu.be/3KW4Nz-Od9k
https://youtu.be/-pwG3yB-4QY
At some point, Ukraine is going to run out of men to bury. Russia, if you have been paying attention, has been lashing military and logistic targets throughout Ukraine with an unrelenting barrage of missiles and bombs for the past ten days and shows no sign of easing off.
In tandem with Russia’s shellacking of the Ukrainian military, the ham handed CIA allegedly put out a recruiting video worthy of Monty Python. Only one problem. The CIA apparently is dead-ass serious about trying to convince some sad Russians to abandon the clean subways of Moscow for the shit-covered streets of San Francisco.
ROFL
You’re disgraceful.
Not sure which is more stupid, the headline or the article.
...or the poster
Yeah, it’s really hard to believe anything favorable to the
Ukraine these days, what with all the Russian advances.
The head of the Wagner group was talking about pulling out
of the Ukraine the other day. It must be all those recent
victories they have pulled off at no cost to them in men
and resources.
Look, I don’t think either side has done much great
recently, but I also don’t think the Ukrainian forces
have showed much cowardliness over the last year and a
few months.
Yep.
Your concern for Russian young men is duly noted.
You will know the Putinistas by their crazy comments.
Defending a country is sacrificing them like the Mayans.
Okeee kooky.
And somehow an army of “drag queens” is humiliating Russia.
Meanwhile, back on earth ....
LOL
What you are responding to seems to have made sense to
someone when it was being written.
And, what if that was all bullsh#t put out with the full consent of the Russian government? lol.
It sure looks like was given that Ukraine is almost done in Bakhmut and has been blowing $500 million of ammo in storage facilities and shredding the Patriot missile system in Kiev.
Idk what’s happening there but the big Uke offensive was supposed to be May 1st or thereabouts. Today is the 17th.
I suppose there was a stuff happens delay...
And what if it wasn’t?
You know, this is the first time I’ve seen anyone backing
Russia admit that it might be behind propaganda also.
I think that was very nice of you. /s
Pssst! We don’t give a crap about Russia either.
We’re sick and tired of wars fought for greedy internationalists.
butthurt?
Do you have anything useful to say, or just want to whine?
We’re sick and tired of wars fought for greedy internationalists.
Pretty much so.
Zelvis doesn’t seem to care about casualties. A Pyrrhic victory is a great PR victory in his coke-addled mind. Even when it’s not even a victory.
Losing ~2,000 men to secure roads long enough for the last 1,500 Bakhmut defenders to escape fails the logic and basic math tests, but it is what it is. Bumbling idiocy.
This one will go down in history all right. But not for a positive reason. See my tagline.
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