For Those Who Might Be Wondering Why We Might Be In Ukraine

[Rightguide]

Low Morale, Insubordination and Desertion – Western Media Shines the Light on Ukrainian Crumbling Frontline Defenses in Donetsk​

by Paul Serran Sep. 9, 2024 9:15 am

In the third year of the war in Ukraine, the reporting by Western media has now broken the ‘Kiev line’ in which only good aspects could be highlighted – and now, reports with the dire reality of the front coexist with others that are pure fantasy and propaganda.

This is the case with the CNN report below, in which the hard situation of the Ukrainian troops is brought to light, plagued with low morale, with desertion by new conscripts becoming the norm.

CNN reported:

“Two and half years of Russia’s grinding offensive have decimated many Ukrainian units. Reinforcements are few and far between, leaving some soldiers exhausted and demoralized. The situation is particularly dire among infantry units near Pokrovsk and elsewhere on the eastern front line, where Ukraine is struggling to stop Russia’s creeping advances.”

The report spoke with six commanders and officers, who unanimously said that desertion and insubordination are an ever-present problem, especially among newly mobilized soldiers.

More here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...ination-desertion-western-media-shines-light/

 

[Lazaran]

Low Morale, Insubordination and Desertion – Western Media Shines the Light on Ukrainian Crumbling Frontline Defenses in Donetsk​

by Paul Serran Sep. 9, 2024 9:15 am

In the third year of the war in Ukraine, the reporting by Western media has now broken the ‘Kiev line’ in which only good aspects could be highlighted – and now, reports with the dire reality of the front coexist with others that are pure fantasy and propaganda.

This is the case with the CNN report below, in which the hard situation of the Ukrainian troops is brought to light, plagued with low morale, with desertion by new conscripts becoming the norm.

CNN reported:

“Two and half years of Russia’s grinding offensive have decimated many Ukrainian units. Reinforcements are few and far between, leaving some soldiers exhausted and demoralized. The situation is particularly dire among infantry units near Pokrovsk and elsewhere on the eastern front line, where Ukraine is struggling to stop Russia’s creeping advances.”

The report spoke with six commanders and officers, who unanimously said that desertion and insubordination are an ever-present problem, especially among newly mobilized soldiers.

More here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...ination-desertion-western-media-shines-light/

Putin thanks Russiaguide for their service.



Russiaguide

 

[SevMax2]

Yeah, this war ain't ending anytime soon. Let's just deal with that fact. More blood and treasure (mostly American and Russian treasure) will continue to be spent in the process. I don't see any exit strategy here at all. For either side.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Frontline report: Ukraine’s unexpected assault turns the tide in Toretsk: In a bold counterattack, Ukraine’s elite Azov Brigade breaks the siege and shifts the momentum near Toretsk — the key stronghold in the Russian push for Donetsk Oblast.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/09...unexpected-assault-turns-the-tide-in-toretsk/

 

[ll74]

Secretary Blinken Travels to the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Poland, September 9-12, 2024s​

Blinken and Lemmy heading to Ukraine later this week.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Secretary Blinken Travels to the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Poland, September 9-12, 2024s​

Blinken and Lemmy heading to Ukraine later this week.

And guess what.....Ukraine is to receive permission for long-range ATACMS strikes against Russia.

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul has said that U.S. Secretary of State is travelling to Kyiv to tell Zelensky that Ukraine will receive permission to start striking deep into Russia with ATACMS and Storm Shadows. It's limited, but a signifiabt step in the right direction.

It seems that Iran’s delivery of ballistic missiles for Russia was the straw that broke the camel’s back

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/30/politics/biden-ukraine-limited-strikes-russia/index.html

 

[ChloeTzang]

I feel like there's something we're missing here.....

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ChloeTzang]

Over the last week, Pokrovsk continued to bear the brunt of orc attacks, although progress towards the logistics hub itself has almost completely stalled. In fact, over the past week the orcs have only managed to take a few more blocks in Hrodivka, a low-lying area that can be pounded from the ridge to the northwest. The orcs have continued to advance on the broader Pokrovsk Front, however, pushing soldiers south from Memryk to the outskirts of Ukrainsk and Hirnyk. This move adds additional pressure on the main logistics route supporting a group of Ukrainian brigades with troops east of the Vovcha.

That’s why some are bothered that Syrskyi said that the orcs hadn’t advanced a single meter towards Pokrovsk in six days. However, though somewhat misleading, the broader claim is not without merit: the timely arrival of reinforcements has broken the offensive’s momentum. The map of the area can’t tell the whole story, and georeferenced data is just the tip of the iceberg. Throughout the orc push over the Vovcha from Prohress to Novohrodivka, intense assaults have been attempted on a ridge overlooking the Kazenyi Torets along the northern flank. But the lines haven’t moved around Vozdvyzhenka despite the Kostiantynivka-Pokrovsk highway sitting just 5km from the nearest orc position.

Interestingly, the brigade leading the defense in this sector, 110th Mechanized, is the one that held on in Avdiivka for two years until a lack of artillery ammunition amid bloody human wave assaults forced them out. Just two months later they were replenished and back on the line, quietly holding firm alongside the other forces in the sector against repeated assaults. Ukraine thus maintains an important stronghold along the edge of the ruscist bulge as it stretches towards Pokrovsk. The brigades sent to hold the line are tough formations, but interestingly they don’t seem to have been drawn from a deep operational reserve, instead coming from quieter fronts. Several brigades that we've been waiting to see appear still haven’t. More surprises are in store.

93rd Mechanized Brigade is an unusually large and highly experienced brigade, formerly covering the southern flank of the Chasiv Yar front alongside Fifth Assault. It appears to have replaced the hard-fought 47th Mechanized in Pokrovsk. The 47th was supposedly slated for rotation two months ago, only another brigade got mauled in the process, forced the tired formation back into action. Along with the 93rd have come two Offensive Guard brigades: 14th Chervona Kalyna and 15th Kara-Dag, both having fought in the Robotyne-Verbove area after the 47th, 82nd Air Assault, and a couple other brigades left. The Offensive Guard brigades seem to be lighter but still tough, good on the defense and in urban spaces. 71st Jager, which at least partially moved from Pokrovsk to Kharkiv, is back again working alongside 151st Mech near Hrodivka.

It was likely the 47th rotating out that enabled Moscow to push through Novohrodivka, a move that unseated the rest of the Vovcha line. Nearly every significant ruscist advance this year has come soon after a brigade level rotation. An incoming unit always requires a few weeks to acclimate itself to an area. In Iraq, insurgents often went after newly arriving battalions when they weren’t yet entirely used to the ins and outs of their operational area. After a baptism of fire, the intensity died down as the insurgents ran out of surprises and the unit developed better relations with the locals.

Anyhow, the long and the short of it is that the Russian advance towards Pokrovsk is now stalled.

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ChloeTzang]

Budanov was just joking with you, boys...

 

[ChloeTzang]

Whoa, here's a new one.....claimed as a Ukrainian FPV drone equipped with an RPG-18 rocket propelled grenade launcher.

 

[Rightguide]

As I reported long ago and the left claimed it was BS:

Biden-Harris Official Admits They Blocked a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal.​

Anti-Russia warmonger and recent Biden-Harris official Victoria Nuland has admitted that Ukraine and Russia were approaching a peace deal in 2022 but that the United States blocked the deal, claiming it was unfair to Ukraine.

Nuland was questioned about claims first reported by Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, suggesting that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had encouraged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to reject a potential peace deal with Moscow in 2022.

She admitted, “People inside Ukraine and people outside Ukraine started asking questions about whether this was a good deal, and it was at that point that it fell apart.”

Nuland’s admissions highlight that Western powers were concerned with ensuring Russia remained weakened, even at the expense of immediate peace.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/0...its-they-blocked-a-ukraine-russia-peace-deal/

 

[ll74]

As I reported long ago and the left claimed it was BS:

Biden-Harris Official Admits They Blocked a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal.​

Anti-Russia warmonger and recent Biden-Harris official Victoria Nuland has admitted that Ukraine and Russia were approaching a peace deal in 2022 but that the United States blocked the deal, claiming it was unfair to Ukraine.

Nuland was questioned about claims first reported by Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, suggesting that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had encouraged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to reject a potential peace deal with Moscow in 2022.

She admitted, “People inside Ukraine and people outside Ukraine started asking questions about whether this was a good deal, and it was at that point that it fell apart.”

Nuland’s admissions highlight that Western powers were concerned with ensuring Russia remained weakened, even at the expense of immediate peace.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/0...its-they-blocked-a-ukraine-russia-peace-deal/

That's not what she did.

 

[Lazaran]

As I reported long ago and the left claimed it was BS:

Biden-Harris Official Admits They Blocked a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal.​

Anti-Russia warmonger and recent Biden-Harris official Victoria Nuland has admitted that Ukraine and Russia were approaching a peace deal in 2022 but that the United States blocked the deal, claiming it was unfair to Ukraine.

Nuland was questioned about claims first reported by Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, suggesting that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had encouraged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to reject a potential peace deal with Moscow in 2022.

She admitted, “People inside Ukraine and people outside Ukraine started asking questions about whether this was a good deal, and it was at that point that it fell apart.”

Nuland’s admissions highlight that Western powers were concerned with ensuring Russia remained weakened, even at the expense of immediate peace.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/0...its-they-blocked-a-ukraine-russia-peace-deal/

At least right wing Russian sympathizers (traitors) like Tim Pool, etc, were getting paid for spreading Russian propaganda…



Russiaguide

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[Rightguide]

Daily Mail reported:

“Putin said the move from the West would ‘change the very nature of the conflict’, and issued a severe threat against giving Zelensky more firepower.
‘It would mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia,’ he told a state TV reporter on Thursday. ‘If that’s the case, then taking into account the change of nature of the conflict, we will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face.’

He added that clearing the way for Ukraine to use missiles that can hit Russian targets ‘is a decision on whether NATO countries are directly involved in the conflict or not’.”

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ll74]

Daily Mail reported:

Another red line from Putin.

This is what ..the 6 or 7th?

I'm sure he means it this time.

Ukraine should be able to use weapons to defend itself as long as they avoid civilian targets.

 

[ChloeTzang]

The US can roll out weapons like this in large numbers if we get serious about production. They're mobile and super accurate, a lot will be lost because they will operate sometimes close to the frontlines but they can be produced quickly and in large numbers and THAT makes a difference. Do we have the commitment and the willpower to win a war though, that's always our issue and that's the biggest issue with Ukraine. The Biden Administration does not want Ukraine to win.

 

[Lazaran]

The US can roll out weapons like this in large numbers if we get serious about production. They're mobile and super accurate, a lot will be lost because they will operate sometimes close to the frontlines but they can be produced quickly and in large numbers and THAT makes a difference. Do we have the commitment and the willpower to win a war though, that's always our issue and that's the biggest issue with Ukraine. The Biden Administration does not want Ukraine to win.

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https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/ha...e-to-win-war-with-russia-EJTMqfVZZFLB4kjn9fCJ

From the article:

“Trump Won’t Say if He Wants Ukraine to Win War With Russia”​

Chloe “Chicongo” Tzang

 

[ChloeTzang]

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/ha...e-to-win-war-with-russia-EJTMqfVZZFLB4kjn9fCJ

From the article:

“Trump Won’t Say if He Wants Ukraine to Win War With Russia”​

Chloe “Chicongo” Tzang

i know, and i honestly hope all he is doing is playing to the MAGA base, and that once he's President, realpolitik comes into play. Ukraine will not agree to give up territory, and Putin will not concede - the moment he does, he's dead. On the other hand, Trump has been a big advocate of lend lease and selling ukraine anything they want, which Zelensky has already said he's good with. The big MAGA stink is about paying for the war - lend lease on the terms Trump set out would be a win-win, because I can't see the war stopping on a phone call.

Any ceasefire plays into Russia's hands, and both Russia and Ukraine know that - and don't forget a lot of the GOP support Ukraine. In the end tho, Biden has lost this one thru timidity, cowardice and ineptitude, and it'll be Trump that wins it, because Trump DOES like winning.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Another huge Shahed drone attack on Ukraine overnight. Out of 76 launched, 72 were shot down by air defense.