Posted on 12/18/2023 7:30:51 PM PST by delta7
As we near the 2 year mark of the war, a ‘Doom and Gloom’ mood has definitely set upon Ukraine’s troops.
After the failed summer counteroffensive came the sudden disruption of international funding. Now, the realization that Russia is better manned and equipped for battle, and the frustration of being on the defensive again is making soldiers question the judgment of their leaders.
Read: Ukrainian Forces Are Running Out of Artillery Shells as Russia Presses With Offensive – New Military Aid Has Fallen by 90%
The discontent among Ukrainian soldiers is becoming more common and expressed out in the open.
Worse – it now comes into the open that one of the few highlights of Kiev’s campaign – the ‘beachhead’ across the Dnieper River against well-armed Russian troops – is nothing but a PR stunt, and a ‘suicide mission’.
New York Times reported:
“Soldiers and marines who have taken part in the river crossings described the offensive as brutalizing and futile, as waves of Ukrainian troops have been struck down on the river banks or in the water, even before they reach the other side.
‘We were sitting in the water at night and we were shelled by everything’, the marine, Maksym, said. ‘My comrades were dying in front of my eyes’.”
Ukrainian troops surrender ‘in masse. Fresh troops arriving have to step on dead Ukrainian soldiers’ bodies.
“’There are no positions. There is no such thing as an observation post or position’, said Oleksiy. ‘It is impossible to gain a foothold there. It’s impossible to move equipment there’.
‘It’s not even a fight for survival’, he added. ‘It’s a suicide mission’.”
By now, everyone has realized that Russian forces mean to push deeper into eastern Ukraine, capturing other oblasts (regions), including Odessam that Russian President Putin has called ‘a Russian city’.
Associated Press reported:
“’The reason the Ukrainians are gloomy is that, they now sense, not only have they not done well this year … they know that the Russians’ game is improving’, said Richard Barrons, a former British army general. ‘They see what’s happening in [US] Congress, and they see what happened in the EU’.”
Ukrainians have definitely passed on to a purely defensive stance.
“’The main goal for the winter is to lose as few people as possible’, said Parker, the Ukrainian commander of a mechanized battalion near Bakhmut who asked to go by his battlefield name to speak freely. […] ‘We have to be clear’, Parker said. ‘It’s not possible in the winter to liberate Donetsk or Bakhmut, because they have too many (fighters)’.”
The Russians have put their defense industry in overdrive the past year, manufacturing armored vehicles and artillery rounds at a pace Ukraine or even the West cannot match.
’Yes they’re ahead of us in terms of supply’, said Boxer, the commander in Kherson, who credited Russian drones with having longer range and more advanced software. ‘It allows the drone to go up 2,000 meters, avoid jammers’, he said, whereas Ukrainian drones “can fly only 500 meters.”
The problems on the battlefield are made exponentially worse by the undeclared civil war between Zelensky and Military Chief Valery Zaluzhny.
Newsweek reported that a wiretap found in offices that Ukraine’s military commander-in-chief, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, planned to move into ‘could be another sign of the reported rift between him and his President Volodymyr Zelensky
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) posted on Telegram on Sunday that ‘a technical device’ had been found in premises earmarked for Zaluzhnyi’s future use.
Preliminary information showed the equipment was in a ‘non-working state’ and while it had not been found in the actual office of the commander, it was in one of the rooms ‘that could be used by him’.”
While Russians obviously are suspected – but it is relevant that the Newsweek sources are quick to state that it could also be ‘an internal job by someone trying to gain intelligence or kompromat [compromising information] on the Commander-in-chief’.
“‘If so, it is also concerning that infighting is continuing between the military and civilian sides in the wake of the failed Ukrainian offensive and Zaluzhny’s, article’, Foreman told Newsweek.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian media reported on Monday that a wiretap had also found in the office of Zaluzhnyi’s assistant, Konstantin Bushuev. Newsweek has contacted the SBU for further comment.”
UMC Baby Momma says this is not true.
Maybe they've found a new love, necking with Hamas in those dark sexy tunnels...
Russia has now also developed 1500kg glide bombs and are using them in this area
They were using 500 and occasionally 1000
These can be dropped far away from the target out of air defense range and glided to the target
Video reportedly of a Russian FAB-1500M54 aviation bomb strike with a UMPK glide kit from a Su-34 bomber on the right bank of the Dnipro near Kherson
https://rumble.com/v420bbt-russian-fab-1500m54-aviation-bomb-strike-glide-kit-on-the-right-bank-of-the.html
The Zeepers are still as cheery as day one. Here’s the posts made here just yesterday:
Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
Update from Ukraine | Ukraine is Planning the New Big Attack | One more Ruzzian convoy Ambushed
Update from Ukraine | Ukraine targeted the Ruzzian Military Airfield | Bombers are damaged
Update from Ukraine | The Worst Army in the World Fails again
Thanks, Janet!
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You mean Vlad finally found enough micro-chips from old washers and dryers? You mean Ivan isn’t using shovels as weapons anymore? You mean Russia’s manufacturing and economy isn’t kaput?….You mean Russia isn’t just one big gas station?…..but the western MSM told us all these things….the war cheerleaders have been had, again…..and US taxpayers raped.
I watch nbc news a couple times a week. They do not ever mention the actual war, or how it’s going; only a fight over “funding.” Yes I believe the media have “moved on.”
That bridgehead across the Dnieper river is starting to look an awful lot like the Demyansk Pocket in WW2. The Russians used it to bleed the increasingly resource strapped and lower population Germans... it’s increasingly looking like that’s what the Russians are doing here, whether that was the original intention or not.
“… Ukies surrendering en masse( loads of non western video)…”
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OK, guys… anyone who wants to be among the last to die or be maimed for Zelensky and the Western globalists …PLEASE STEP FORWARD.
Agree.
Stay tuned for senile Joe’s Afghanistan Debacle II, called Ukraine….how could so many people have bought into senile Joe’s Ukie narrative?……twice….I never forgot his “ safe and effective “ jabs…..Americans have become so, so…..I won’t say it.
it’s increasingly looking like that’s what the Russians are doing here, whether that was the original intention or not
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Vlad has done it already over and over, the infamous “ Bradley Square”, Artymovsk ( Bakmut), Avidiivka, Marylinka, Marioupol,, just to mention a few…..of course our leadership announcing early on “ fight Ivan to the last Ukie” hasn’t helped the poor Ukies one bit.
Post war analysis will uncover all of senile Joe’s lies and omissions…..carry on Joe, almost half of Ukraine is gone or fled…..not to much more to achieving your goal.
Slow Joe doesn’t even know he has a goal. All of this is globalist created and sustained to make the US totally broke. They’ll keep restocking the Biden coffers to keep it going.
I think this opinion piece belongs in the “Russian propaganda”
category for those who are so upset about “propaganda” being presented here - For the record I do not care; post all you want; propaganda often carries truth.
Who the Hell wants Putin to win? Asking for a friend.
Who the Hell wants Putin to win?
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Almost three quarters of the world’s population, China, India, ME, Brics…
Most the world is fed up with US hegemony and their for ever wars. The world doesn’t revolve around the West… many find offensive boys in girls locker rooms, men in woman’s sports, destruction of the family, Trans in every government agency , gay marriage, that’s just a slice….
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