I fear it will continue down to the last handful of men. The Pentagon supposedly advised withdraw from Bakhmut but Zelensky’s handlers want him to stay. The Ukraine may be missing a few generations of men as there’s stories of aggressive physical conscription after taking men to the age of at least 55.
The counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Artyomovsk failed due to the deception of the commanders: Details
On February 3, during the fighting in the area of the village of Krasnaya Gora, at least 25 military servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, mobilized in the Cherkasy, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk and Zhytomyr regions of Ukraine and sent to the Artemovsk region, surrendered to the RF Armed Forces.
According to the Military Chronicle, upon arrival in Chasov Yar, the Ukrainian mobilized were given partially faulty weapons and forced to sign for the receipt of NLAW anti-tank systems, Grg M48 Carl Gustaf and French Milan anti-tank systems, which they promised to give to the mobilized elsewhere.
After painting in the documents, the mobilized were sent to the positions of the 61st Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Krasnaya Gora without additional weapons. Instead of being equipped with foreign anti-tank systems, they were armed with Soviet RPG-7 without additional shots. After that, the mobilized were sent to the most active site of clashes - the first line of defense in the area of Lenin and Pobeda streets.
By the evening of February 3, after a series of powerful artillery strikes and a three-hour operation of the T-72B3 and T-80BV tanks on the positions of the Ukrainian troops, officers and regular Ukrainian soldiers of the 1st and 2nd rifle battalions of the 61st Infantry Brigade left their positions, leaving the mobilized without ammunition , communications and medicines.
Instead of retreating to positions deep into the village, the mobilized laid down their arms and on the night of February 4 went to the positions of the RF Armed Forces, after which they were searched and taken prisoner. According to the Ukrainian mobilized prisoners, a similar situation with the deception of commanders who send reinforcements to the most difficult sectors of the front without weapons and reinforcements is also observed in the 57th motorized infantry, 24th and 30th mechanized brigades.
According to the prisoners, from communication with colleagues, it was possible to find out that the weapons, for which those mobilized sign upon arrival at the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chasovoy Yar, never arrived in this direction and did not fall into the hands of advanced units in Krasnaya Gora and Paraskovievka. Presumably, heavy weapons, the loss of which is being attributed to the mobilized, was either sold or lost by the Ukrainian army in the battles for Soledar and Podgorodnoe.
The price of Ukrainian brides is going to be dirt cheap.