Slavyangrad:
Zin note: Jokes on them, when Putin falls and is replaced by Medvedev and Kadyrov!
Report:
Ukrainian TG-channel “Legitimny” writes:
“Our source reports that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had a large replenishment in heavy weapons over the summer, since the Office of the President spent all Western financial assistance, as well as finances collected from funds and organizations, as well as state revenues, on urgent purchases of equipment at inflated prices, solvers (functionaries), sometimes resorted to the help of the “black market”. They have good connections. They bought out all heavy weapons, armored cars, pickup trucks with machine guns, sometimes they exchanged them for other toys. They used any schemes to achieve their goals.
The office of the President did not spend money on the civil sector, did not protect the population from the coming famine, inflation, devastation in the housing and communal services sector or raising social standards. Literally everything is spent on weapons. They bought it, trained it, and now they threw everyone into an urgent offensive.
The all-in strategy will play out if the Armed Forces of Ukraine manage to at least repeat the Kharkov success and, for example, take Kherson, which could lead to a bad case in the Russian Federation and launch a “fall in power” in the Kremlin with the very capitulation that the new Russian government will sign.
If the war drags on, everything bought will be lost, and the strategy does not work, the domino principle does not start, then the Office of the President can wait for the counter domino principle.
In general, the Ukrainian people are in for a very difficult time. Many simply do not yet realize the real scale of the impending “storm”.
https://t.me/ukraina_ru/104908
I disagree. It is going to be a lot easier to get emergency western contributions for "starving Ukranians" than for "starving Russians".
Question: if Medvedev and Kadyrov did take over, aside from nukes what can they do to turn things around?
The provinces have been hollowed out by conscription, and are pushing back.
And they can’t even train and kit out the current batch of conscripts, let alone do it with a bigger wave.
Belarus and Chechnya are at the limit of the assistance they’re willing to give, although Kadyrov is threatening to send his 24 year old son into battle as some kind of example.
China and North Korea are holding out.
By contrast Ukraine stockpiled kit and allowed dimwit Russian propagandists to gloat that donated arms were being flogged off. It now looks like that was a massive rope-a-dope; the arms are there but the troops needed training and kitting out.
The untrained, ill-disciplined Potemkin army is being knocked for six by a vastly more coordinated, professional, methodical, disciplined Ukrainian response that’s learnt important stuff like not to leak operational information.