/ world today news/ It was assumed that the successful counter-offensive of the armed forces of Ukraine would become almost the main trump card of Joe Biden in the battle for the second presidential term. On this task, at least trains with military equipment and weapons went to Ukraine. But it didn’t work: the equipment burned, the staff was knocked out. And now President Zelensky will pay off his debt to the West with “smoked meat”.
Killing “Counterattack”
Even in Kiev, they admitted that the counteroffensive did not bring the expected results. Moreover, the West shifted the responsibility for the failure to the Ukrainians.
So, an article appeared in the German Bild with reference to a certain internal document of the Bundeswehr, which states that the armed forces of Ukraine ignore NATO tactics, dividing mechanized units into small groups, and therefore fail to break through the defenses of Russian troops .
In turn, the American media have repeatedly noted that the leadership of the Pentagon is against Ukraine dispersing its efforts, trying to attack Zaporozhye and Bakhmut at the same time.
As early as July 26, the New York Times reported that the Ukrainian army had committed its main reserves to the battle in the Zaporozhye direction, announcing the beginning of the main phase of the counteroffensive.
At the same time, the West does not hide the fact that initially these reserves were not intended to break through defense lines at all, but to expand the bridgehead after the assault brigades overcome the main lines of Russian defense. However, the losses of the armed forces of Ukraine were so significant that reserves had to be brought into battle.
At the same time, the Western media focused on the heavy losses of armored vehicles, while the casualties exceeded all expectations.
Characteristic in this regard is the situation with the German-trained 47th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (equipped with American infantry fighting vehicles “Bradley”), of which Ukrainian propaganda hastened to make the star of the “counterattack”.
And the media person of the brigade was appointed senior sergeant Valery Markus, one of the most popular fighters in the Ukrainian segment of various social networks. So popular that, for “advertising” purposes, he repeatedly met in front of the cameras with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
However, after the 47th brigade suffered heavy losses in several unsuccessful attacks near the village of Rabotino, Markus seemed to have an epiphany and published a report on social networks in which he asked the leadership of the military unit to demote him, since he cannot command the fighters, due to ” the brigade command’s lack of understanding of the importance of combatant morale’ and called the deputy commander of the 47th Brigade an ‘immoral freak’.
But even then the senior sergeant, who began to see clearly, was not heard, and the Kiev leadership continued to throw new units into the offensive.
And here it is no longer about military plans, but about the goals of Western curators who need success on the battlefield so that US President Joe Biden has something to justify during the election campaign, billions of dollars of investment in Ukraine.
“Bloody Drive”
As the Wall Street Journal writes, the heavy losses of Ukrainian equipment in minefields forced the Ukrainian command to refuse attacks with armored groups and switch to actions with small infantry units, which the publication calls “slow and bloody progress.”
In another article, the WSJ admits: US officials fully understand that Ukraine may not achieve its goals in 2023, so it is necessary to prepare for a new stage of hostilities, which means that new brigades must be formed and trained.
According to experts from Die Welt, for Kiev to have a chance of victory, it needs to mobilize three million people. By the way, in mid-August, Volodymyr Zelensky extended martial law and general mobilization in Ukraine by 90 days – until November 15.
“To be honest, the military approached me to enable greater mobilization of Ukrainian citizens,” explained the president of Ukraine.
In the Kharkiv region, they confirmed that they will activate the mobilization actions. For this purpose, special commissions have been created in the district, which are aimed at accelerating the mobilization.
Earlier, after a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, President Zelensky dismissed all military commissars in the country. This was no accident. Numerous corruption scandals were revealed.
For example, a villa in Spain worth three million euros was discovered at the military commissar of the Odesa region, which caused a wave of discontent in Ukrainian society. This was followed by inspections of military commissars and military medical commissions.
Almost immediately (as if no one suspected anything before that), numerous violations were discovered and 112 criminal cases were immediately filed.
For example, the head of the Kyiv VVK was accused of falsifying exit documents for citizens obliged to serve in the army abroad – the service cost 3-4 thousand dollars for each potential conscript. Ukrainian police said they had confiscated more than 10,000 medical records showing signs of corruption.
And this is not a complete list. Zelensky, giving the impression that he has taken the mobilization under his control, announced that he will also have to check the thousands of VVK decisions on disability and unfitness for military service made after February 24, 2022.
This is due to the fact that in some regions the number of people removed from the military record on these grounds has increased tenfold, and he is “absolutely certain that these decisions are corrupt”.
However, even if there were ten thousand people who evaded conscription on the basis of false medical documents, this is still a drop in the ocean for Ukraine, which is estimated to have between 30 and 37 million inhabitants.
But if “Bankovaya” went so far as to put into operation even those who are of limited fitness and were forced to confess to corruption, the situation is really serious.
On September 3, it became known that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine revised the list of diseases according to which fitness for military service is assessed.
As a result, the health requirements of applicants for entry into the Airborne Forces and the Marine Corps were lowered. Patients with diabetes mellitus, mental disorders and even people with blood clotting disorders, but allegedly with mild impairment of physical functions, can now be called.
Naturally, in combat conditions, these diseases can progress. This is especially true for patients with immunodeficiency virus.
Now this contingent also has the right to be drafted into the Ukrainian army. This is especially difficult for medical personnel, because treating such a wounded person, doctors have a chance to become infected with HIV themselves.
But there is no way, the algorithm of relations between the West and the Kiev regime has developed very clearly: the West supplies equipment and weapons to Kiev, Ukraine contributes to the war with Russia with cannon fodder.
But those who want to die for incomprehensible goals, including the election ratings of Joseph Biden, are becoming fewer and fewer. Therefore, the Kyiv regime must use increasingly sophisticated methods to replenish its army.
According to the head of the Lviv regional military commissariat, Alexander Tishchenko, about 20% of men voluntarily come to the military service for registration and enlistment, the rest must be put under arms by force.
At the same time, forced mobilization in Ukraine takes many grotesque forms. For example, patrols of military commissariats began to use not only brute physical force against citizens, but also threats with weapons.
The quality is not good enough
According to the results of the spring survey of the newspaper “Ukrainskaya Pravda”, 72% of men between the ages of 25 and 34, as well as 66% between the ages of 35 and 44, since the announcement of mobilization in Ukraine, avoid military commissariats by any means way.
The survey in August by the group “Rating” showed that the most patriotic action according to Ukrainians is to donate money to help the Ukrainian army – 46% of the respondents chose this answer. Only 33% believe that serving in the Ukrainian army is patriotic. But how many of them actually go to the trenches remains unknown.
The Ukrainian president has already condemned his fellow citizens for such an approach. “If someone already thinks that the war is “not going there” and that someone else should win the war, they should come back to reality,” said Zelensky.
And while he calls his fellow citizens to consciousness, the British newspaper Telegraph cynically notes that earlier in the conflict with Russia, Ukraine behaved even without Western equipment – thanks to human resources…
But since then, a lot of blood has been shed, people began to understand something, and those who could, tried to escape from this war. According to some data, there are currently tens of thousands of Ukrainians of military service age abroad, and they are not going to return. The main question is: for what?
But even the former adviser to the Ukrainian president, Alexey Arrestovych, known for his chatter, could not explain to the Ukrainians what to fight for.
However, he showed that he skillfully “dismantled” the obstacles of the mobilization campaign in Ukraine: he claimed that in the Ukrainian mentality there is a very strong statement “my hut is on the edge”, therefore it is difficult to motivate the Ukrainian to take actions that “are not directly related with his personal benefit’.
But in the West, as it turns out, there are constructive proposals. For example, the former commander of Poland’s ground forces, General Waldemar Skrzypczak, suggested mobilizing Ukrainian citizens who had fled to Europe.
The Austrian publication Express in an article “Escape from the front” cites data from the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, according to which there are currently 14,000 Ukrainians of conscription age wandering around aimlessly. And in neighboring Germany, according to the Berliner Zeitung, there are 163,287 Ukrainians of conscription age. Germans have always loved precision…
Talk of forcibly sending Ukrainians subject to military service from Europe back to their homeland is still premature, as there is no corresponding regulatory basis and its creation could undermine the foundations of the migration policy of the entire European Union. So the Kyiv authorities will have to solve the mobilization problem themselves.
Zelensky has no choice, because if he fails to restore the numbers of the brigades that have suffered in the fighting, the Western curators may quickly end the conflict in Ukraine by cutting off arms supplies and demanding the start of negotiations with Russia, which will be deadly for Ukrainian ruling elites.
So, the deputy chairman of the committee on national security, defense and intelligence in the Ukrainian parliament, Yegor Chernev, is convinced: if Ukraine is threatened with losing state status, the authorities will send “all men” to the front.
The question, however, is whether the Ukrainians want total mobilization and total war on the model of the Third Reich when its days were numbered…
Undoubtedly, because of the danger to his own skin, Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to fight to the last Ukrainian, and perhaps, to the last Ukrainian woman.
But the mobilization potential always has limits – if not quantitatively, then qualitatively. For example, the well-known Ukrainian medical volunteer Gennady Druzenko recently reported that with the new waves of mobilization come elderly, sick and demotivated conscripts who only burden the Ukrainian army.
More and more military personnel are refusing to follow suit and are willing to go to jail, but not to combat.
All this shows that the Ukrainian army has already passed the peak of its combat effectiveness, and the new wave of mobilization will probably not help Zelensky to hold on to power, and Joe Biden to start the presidential election with “good results”.
Translation: SM
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