Posted on 06/01/2022 7:25:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed Tuesday that his country is losing as many as 100 soldiers a day as Russia presses its military offensive in the eastern Donbas region, where street-by-street fighting is being reported in some areas.
“The most difficult situation is in the east of Ukraine and southern Donetsk and Luhansk,” Zelensky said in an interview with Newsmax that was published on Tuesday.
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Huh?!
Regards,
My mic on my phone sucks.
I meant to say I don’t know what to believe anymore with this guy.
Quick another $40 billion, stat!
They should die for their country just like we would die for ours. When they surrender it’s not a country.
I’ll say it again: Thank God we have blacks here.
Makes no difference
Cold warriors here believe what they like to believe
They haven’t surrendered yet
and that “100 per day” number is the number killed
so they are dying for their country
I keep hearing about how Russians are advancing, advancing, advancing in the Donbas, but the only town I can see that they took in the last several weeks is Lyman (pop. 20,000), and they’re still on the North bank at Lyman; the intrusion onto the Southern bank at Izium doesn’t seem to have moved in over a month (April 6).
The numbers are varied, but it appears that late 2021 Ukraine armed forces (excluding civil servants) numbered about 195,000. About 50,000 additional border guards existed and 40,000 national guard types. The border guards were the equivalent of TSA and immigration people — at airports and seaports. The national guard rec’d minimal military training and returned to civilian life.
As of 2021 the total population of Ukraine was 41 million, down from 45 million in year 2000. To date 6.8 million have fled the country for EU long term work visas. The majority of these women, children and elderly.
If 100 die per day, that is a loss of 36,500 at the end of a year. Note that of the 195K military quoted, a significant number are air force techs or navy personnel. They are not available as soldiers on the Donbas front lines.
So the 36,500 loss is erased from a much smaller number than 195K.
I don’t see how this can be allowed to go on.
Apparently, they have changed tactics. Their Btl Combat Groups proved to be a tactical failure, due to their tanks being death traps, and not enough boots in the units. I hear that they are sending out reinforced company sized elements and seizing little defendable chunks. It looks as though the plan now is to take the ground they want from Ukraine one bite at a time.
..I think one sure piece of evidence that the Ukes are losing this war is that you never hear of or see any footage of the fighting over there on (especially...) Fox News, etc. Used to be every night some talking head from somwhere in Ukraine was reporting on the fighting; now, nothing....I am not a Putin stooge, but I believe a negotiated ceace-fire would be in the best interests of both Russia and Ukraine...
As a frequent visitor of HotAir, they used to have this blaring headlines every day about how amazing Ukraine is doing, Russia losing, Russia suffers this, Ukraine does that, etc., etc., etc.
Yet in the last week or so, they’ve been real quiet, so I surmise the current news ain’t to their liking.
The war is more-less stalemate.
Neither site has enough resources to win it.
After changing military leadership, the Russians strategy improved. They seem to make some better use of resources and concentrate on few points.
However, they are running out of resources.
If Ukraine gets more, better supplies, and train more soldiers, it is expected that the situation will change.
The main problem is that Ukraine was so far supplied mostly with defensive arms. When they try to switch to offensive, to regain lost areas, they lack the resources.
That’s why continuous support for Ukraine is crucial!
Zelinsky calling for more mercenary freedom fighters (and money) 🤪
>> I think one sure piece of evidence that the Ukes are losing this war is that you never hear of or see any footage of the fighting over there on (especially...) <<
I think that’s evidence that Russia is no longer foolishly throwing around huge, easy-to-fight divisions of tanks. If there was a place I was tempted to believe no news was bad news, it would be outside Kherson.
>> I believe a negotiated ceace-fire would be in the best interests of both Russia and Ukraine. <<
Aye, there’s the trick, though, when a super-power attacks a much smaller nation, isn’t it? In a very real way, Max Detweiler from the Sound of Music was quite correct when he said that surrendering to the Germans was in the best interest of Austria. In fact, there’s a point when it’s in a rape victim’s or a tortured prisoner’s best interest to stop resisting. But if you tell a victim it’s in their best interest to stop fighting, it’s pretty damned hard to say you’re a friend and not an accomplice, isn’t it?
There will likely come a point when the rest of the world can do no more to drive Russia out of Ukraine, but if the prize of Russia isn’t so very small, and the cost so very large, Russia will attack again and again. Be careful you don’t end up sounding like Max Detweiler or a rapist’s accomplice or Neville Chamberlain or Jimmy Carter.
Very good dangus.
Here’s another:
*so they are dying for their country*
More need to die on both sides to negotiate an end but will it end?
Zelensky: “Russia is losing a bazillion troops and Eleventy Star Generals every hour! Send money.”
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