Four Ukrainian army soldiers of the 22nd Mechanized Brigade training with a tank in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on October 29, 2023.Anadolu Agency
Business Insider: Ukraine official says it can't properly use its Western kit because it has so few soldiers left, report says
* Ukraine's army is in dire need of manpower, an aide to its president told Time magazine.
* The lack of soldiers means Ukraine isn't able to make proper use of Western-provided gear, he said.
* As well as suffering casualties, many Ukrainian men are trying to escape enlistment.
A Ukrainian official said Ukraine's army is suffering a manpower shortage that is hampering its ability to use Western-donated weapons, Time magazine reported.
Since the start of the war, several Ukrainian officials have blamed their difficulty repelling Russia's invasion on the slow pace of deliveries by its allies.
However, in the Time report, an unnamed source identified as a close aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy highlighted a different problem.
"We don't have the men to use them," the aide said in reference to the Western weapons.
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Update: Ukrainian soldiers are burned out and worried they'll run out of troops as the war with Russia drags on (Business Insider)
WNU Editor: This article from the Kyiv Independent sums up what all my contacts/friends/and family members in Ukraine are telling me .... As Bakhmut counteroffensive lags, soldiers burnt out from horrors of war (Kyiv Independent).
The most common question that I am asked is .... "how long is this war going to go on"? When I say 2 to 3 years, maybe more, the shocked silence that I then hear is deafening.
Why are the Ukrainians still putting up with this? Zelensky can’t win this, so he is a dead man with no care left for anyone. The more he can take with him, the happier he’ll be
ReplyDeleteRon, here ya go. The editor pick up on what we talked about this morning.
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ReplyDeleteFor those who do not believe this article.
You should have got the hint when it was reported here, on this blog, (over 3 months ago)
that the grave yards were filling up. To get a relative buried you had to wait a month, maybe longer.
Or the reports that there were no more volunteers at the recruiting stations and many were bribing tier way out of the country.
Or that the AFU had degenerated into a press gang system of gaining new recruits.
Then there was the Ukrainian news that the AFU were to draft, the: mentally disabled, HIV, hepatitis and other sick people.
Then there was the notification that the average age in the Ukrainian army was 45 years old.
You could have also seen the pictures of new army recruits, most look middle age or older. Old fat men who should be behind a plow or in a factory not running a machine gun.
But, many on the blog just chose to ignore those warnings, because they were blinded by thier ideological thinking.
This is what you get when you ignore the facts because your world view does not align with the facts.
it is called normalcy bias and Cognitive dissonance .
What to do?
Choose no side.
Trust no first report
wait a month maybe two to see if "the truth comes out"
A News source lies to you, never trust it again.
Why? Because the truth does not care who wins or loses. Or who is right or wrong. All it cares about is what actually happened.
And that is what you need to know in order to make competent analysis and then decisions.
Welcome to intel 101.
Intel 101,201,301,401,501............
DeleteNever should have lasted this long, more dead because of empty western promises.
ReplyDeleteWhen Hamas launched their murderous attack on Israeli citizens on October 7th, they were under a ceasefire they had negotiated. This is what ceasefires are for. For a year I thought the Ukrainians should have negotiated a ceasefire, begin a proxy gorilla war against the occupiers and rebuild, update ect. 3-5 years from now, when Russian troops are worn out from defending what they have taken, re-launch the war. But here they are. losing the financial and equipment support needed and continuing to bleed their primary resource, fighting age men.
ReplyDeleteWhat Ukraine does not understand, is that the EU nations, UK and America are all in their own internal war of attrition because of mass immigration, the green fraud, government fraud/lies/censorship and government theft through debt. the people in these countries are all working harder to try and keep up. too much to also worry about Ukraine.
What amaze me at this point is why Zelensky is still in power. How comes nobody in the military or defense department didn't move to kick his ass off. Corruption must be very high and I can only imagine how they are burning our money.
ReplyDeleteNonsense, all I see is nonsense...
to die or not to die that is the q
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