banderites? LOL, that’s funny. its also pure Russian propaganda, Congratulations, Putin loves you!
and again, sorry, didn’t support Biden’s weak and tepid response.
and lastly, as I’ve made clear many times, what I support is the US making sure Russia does not win a war of conquest in Europe, Ukraine is irrelevant. Russian decline is good for America. America First!
The forecast for Ukrainian cities is cold and dark as Russian missiles and drones have been taking down the power and heating systems.
According to the mayor of Kyiv, 600,000 people left the city in January as the result of the lack of heat and power:
Maxim Timchenko, the head of the largest Ukrainian producer, says that an energy ceasefire is necessary to avoid a “humanitarian disaster” as reported in a recent Reuters story:
Meanwhile 2 million draft-age Ukrainian have left the country and another 200,000 have deserted according to Mykhailo Fedorov, the Ukrainian Defense Minister:
At the same time, US envoy / retired General Kellogg, insists that time is still on the side of the Ukraine.
I understand that this is a difficult winter. I understand what is happening in Kyiv, I know about the temperatures. But I sincerely believe that if Ukraine survives this winter - January, February - and we enter March and April, the advantage will be on your side, on the side of Ukraine, not Russia . . . https://ukranews.com/en/news/1130021-ukraine-will-have-advantage-if-it-survives-this-winter-kellogg
if you had any idea of the strategic objectives of both sides you’d know what Kellogg said is true.
Russia’s strategy is to force Ukraine to capitulate by destroying the Ukrainian Army, their will to fight, and to turn the Ukrainian people against the government by destroying civilian infrastructure and terrorizing Ukrainian civilians.
They have failed and continue to fail on all three. The Ukrainian army is not destroyed, they have not lost the will to fight, and Ukrainian civilians now hate Russia more than they ever did.
The Ukrainian strategy is to trade land for time, attrit to the highest degree possible asymmetrical losses of Russian material and personnel and attack Russia’s ability to fuel its war machine.
It has succeeded in part, and is succeeding in part. Russia has blown through pretty much its entire stock of prewar soviet equipment and cannot replenish what they lose anywhere near adequately. Russian personnel losses are at minimum 3X Ukrainian losses and over the last few months more like 5X. They have pretty much run out of non ethnic Russians who will fight and are facing a situation where they will have to call a general mobilization that will not be popular at home. Their economy is flailing and their main source of income is growing smaller every day.
If Ukraine can hang on long enough (big if, yet to see whether they can) the Russian economy will collapse, Putin will fall, and the war will fail with him.
The basic issue is that Kellogg and other neocons believe lies and propaganda from Kyiv and London to support the myth that Ukraine can win.
The lack of troops, the associated chronic shortage of cemetery space, and impressment gangs dragging men off the streets are obvious symptoms of Ukraine’s manpower crisis.
Meanwhile Russia’s army continues to expand it military forces.
Zelensky recently admitted Ukraine had run out of air-defense missiles. Any new shipments are immediately consumed in the nightly Russian attacks.
Canadian government is withholding a 40-year-old list of suspected Nazi war criminals that were allowed to come to Canada because the truth would be “Russian propaganda.”
Of course, the same Liberal government froze accounts and locked people up based of false claims about the trucker protestor connections to neo-Nazis/white supremacists. On the other hand, protecting real Nazis is now vital to national security. See how it works?
The point is that western governments and western media have been doing everything they can to support pro-war, Ukraine-is-winning, the-invasion-was-unprovoked narratives. That means burying anything evidence that contradict these narratives.
For another example, consider the official narrative that Russia has been suffering enormous casualties compared to Ukraine and the front lines have been at a stalemate from more than a year. Recent exchanges of the remains of fallen soldiers show the opposite. For every Russian soldier returned to Russia, Ukraine has received 25 to 40 fallen soldiers in return.
These figures are consistent with Ukrainian suffering far higher casualties, and Ukrainian troops being forced to retreat and leave their war dead to be recovered by advancing Russian forces. The exchanges have received little coverage in western media, and none of the stories point out the obvious implications about the war situation.
One explanation is that as the Russians are advancing on all fronts they are able to collect their dead as they go. Retreating UkroNazis don’t have that option.
One rule of warfare is that the attacking force always suffers higher casualties than the defending piece unless it’s a. Complete rout. The Ukrainians are retreating from positions in goood order.
LOL… propaganda, the dead are on Russians side of the line, including the THOUSANDS of Russian dead. Your narrative is ■■■■■ Russia s losing 4 or 5X the soldiers Ukraine is.
Ukraine is not being “forced” to retreat, they are giving up land for time, its their strategy. Something you know nothing about. Its called a delaying action.
The invasion was unprovoked, Putin chose it. Who is winning depends on your metric and who’s strategy is succeeding. Russia’s strategy has and is still failing. Ukraine’s strategy has been a mixed bag. Some way succeeding, some ways not and still others yet to be determined.
Is it better to slowly bleed them? Seems more immoral and less honest if you ask me. Trump is letting Ukraine basically get whatever they can that they can buy that they already have had (plus some). Biden slow walked everything and then told them not to use it in the way that would give them the best affect. Biden pretty much forced Ukraine to go on an offensive which cost them dearly to demonstrate our support was meaningful and then didn’t give them what they need to make it successful. That said, Trump’s policy also sucks, but in different ways. He’s bought into Russia’s narrative of inevitability, which is simply untrue. His motivation is peace at any cost (to Ukraine) in order to return to the old status quo which is immoral and unwise, Both approaches suck, because both approaches are designed to keep Putin in power and both result in Putin being rewarded for his invasion. Trump’s approach will get it over with quicker, thats all.
Yes, the Russians have been advancing pretty much on all fronts, and that is a factor in the lopsided exchanges of fallen soldiers.
Another factor is that the Russians have been using their huge advantage in artillery and missiles to win a war of attrition. Their troops only advance after Ukrainian forces have either retreated or been wiped out by attacks from a safe distance. The Russians have minimized their casualties with this approach.
In contrast, Ukraine’s western backers have demanded a long series of futile, costly attempts at offensive operations against entrenched Russian forces. Unlike US forces, the Ukrainians have been expected to advance without a 3:1 numerical advantage and without air support. The results have been horrendously high Ukrainian losses in an attempt to score a propaganda “victory” with a Ukrainian flag on a heap of rubble in no-man’s-land. That is what happened in the Ukrainian documentary, 2000 meters to Andriivka.
Andriivka had no strategic significance, and it was recaptured by the Russians a few months later. The only purpose of the attack was to keep the money and military aid flowing into Kyiv.