Gloominiess Descends On Ukraine As The Tide Of War Turns

Members of a Ukrainian battalion of young soldiers as they return to their base near Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on May 28. They have spent their days digging defensive trenches in a pocket not far from the front line to provide additional support for soldiers battling the Russians head-on. Photo for The Washington Post by Heidi Levine 

Washington Post: Ukraine suffers on battlefield while pleading for U.S. arms  

Gloominiess descends on Ukraine as war tide turns. “They’re just raining down metal on us,” said a soldier fresh from the front line where Russia is advancing. 

DONETSK OBLAST, Ukraine - The ambulances hurtled into the parking lot one after the other, each carrying wounded troops directly from the nearby front line. One young man stared straight ahead, his face swollen, his neck and back dripping with blood. Others lay silently under foil blankets. 

Some stumbled out the back doors and collapsed into wheelchairs as staff rushed to push them inside. Nearby, bloodied cots sat propped against a tent and other wounded soldiers lingered about, their faces grim, their heads, arms or legs bandaged as the sound of outgoing artillery boomed across the sky. 

About 10 wounded soldiers arrived at this hospital in eastern Ukraine in less than an hour Sunday morning - the latest military casualties as Ukrainian forces, outgunned by Russia in the country’s east, continue to lose territory at a critical moment in the war. 

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WNU Editor: The Washington Post tries to make the case that the US should significantly increase military aid to Ukraine. I am not sure if increased aid would make a difference. 

Everyone that I know who is still in Ukraine paint a very dark picture on what is happening. 

Electricity and the internet are becoming unreliable. There are fuel shortages everywhere. Food is a becoming a problem. Forget about medicines. 

Half of Ukraine's population is now displaced, and it is going to get worse if the war continues to grind on. 

I am still predicting that this is going to be a long war. That the Russian military will continue to use its advantages .... artillery/short supply lines/more fire-power, and they will grind down the Ukraine military at a rate much faster than the rate the Ukraine military is grinding down the Russian military. 

But unless something changes drastically, the Donbas will completely fall to Russian forces in the next month or two, and the war will then shift to Zaporishia, a major industrial city situated on the banks of the Dnieper river, and Mykolaiv, a city that is north of Kherson and 100 kilometers away from Odessa (see map below).