Losses in manpower amounted to 5,360 “mercenaries”, 2,458 servicemen from the armies of NATO countries and 234 military instructors
Two important recent posts will get you thinking. The first appeared in the Turkish press. The publication Hurseda, referring to its sources in the Israeli intelligence Mossad, extracted the following data.
The losses of the Ukrainian army at the beginning of January 2023 should be estimated as follows:
Ukraine lost 302 aircraft, 212 helicopters, 2,750 UAVs, 6,320 tanks and other armored vehicles, 7,360 artillery systems, 497 air defense systems, 234,000 wounded, 157,000 killed and 17,320 prisoners.
Equally important is the information about the losses of the NATO countries on the territory of Ukraine.
According to Mossad sources, Western losses in manpower amounted to 5,360 “mercenaries”, 2,458 servicemen from the armies of NATO countries and 234 military instructors.
That is, the entire NATO, officially denying its participation in the conflict, except for the supply of weapons, lost about 8 thousand people in Ukraine in 10 months. And almost all Soviet weapons inherited from the countries of the former Warsaw Pact.
Experts are not surprised
Military Review experts draw attention to the fact that Hurseda’s data “rhymes” well with those that were voiced in the United States in early November: then it was reported that the Ukrainians lost 100 thousand soldiers and officers (killed).
Taking into account the intensity of military operations in Soledar, Bakhmut and other sections of the front, the losses could grow one and a half times.
Military experts point out that all data given in the Turkish publication should be taken as estimates. More interesting is the loss ratio, which according to Turkish journalists is mentioned by Israeli intelligence.
According to Hurseda’s sources, in 10 months, Russia lost almost 9 (!) times less killed than the enemy. Military expert, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ilya Kramnik notes on this occasion:
“The Americans knew what they were talking about when last fall, in the new edition of FM 3-0 Operations, they returned firepower to the number of defining parameters of combat power in general, pointing to its destructive, crushing and demoralizing effect.”
“Russian firepower exceeds anything NATO can put into Ukraine. NATO is beginning to look for a way out of a war it cannot win.”
NATO is looking for a way out
That’s why The Washington Post today reports:
“Republicans are increasingly less inclined to believe that the United States really has a stake in the conflict … 41 percent of Republicans agree that Russia should receive Ukrainian territories in order to end the conflict.”
At the same time, according to WP authors, more than half of Republicans are against providing a large number of weapons to Kyiv. Really, what’s the point of it with such losses and such prospects – only losses without any gain.
Of course, we must not forget that US foreign policy is not currently being determined by the Republican Party. Republicans have a majority only in the lower house of the US Parliament. So it would be naïve to expect that their sentiments at the moment will lead to any changes in NATO’s military policy.
But at the same time, it would be wrong to assume that no changes are expected. Changes are expected and, moreover, Western propagandists are beginning to prepare Ukrainians themselves for these changes.
Arestovich has already discovered it
None other than Oleksiy Arestovich, a recent adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine and now an “independent expert”, said the other day that the war could end in a completely different way than expected by the Ukrainians, as a result of which Ukraine could does not return all its territories and the West is ready to follow this scenario.
According to Arestovich, Minsk-3, also known as the “scenario of the two Koreas”, i.e., becomes a real prospect. freezing the conflict along the line of contact of the belligerent armies at the time of the conclusion of an armistice. It is clear that from the point of view of Ukrainians, this scenario is a disaster:
What will happen to a society that has moved to high expectations, but will receive a conditional “Minsk-3”?
“This reverse spring of unfulfilled expectations is going to hit us so hard – morale and everything – that we’re just going to flounder. The outcome of this war could be very different from what we thought three months ago,” Arestovich said.
“And not because the Americans don’t give weapons or delay, but because for success we need 400 thousand perfectly trained soldiers with NATO weapons… Do we have them? We don’t have them… We as a society are not ready for such an outcome,” he believes he.
Arestovych and other propagandists gradually began to convince Ukraine and the West that the “two Korea scenario” – that is, the scenario of the “splitting” of Ukraine – is actually not so bad. In some ways it’s even good.
The activity of this propaganda indicates that such an offer has either already been made or will be made in the near future by the US to Russia.
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