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“During their brief visits to the nearby city of Konstantinovka, Ukrainian infantrymen told the Kyiv Independent about unprepared, poorly trained battalions thrown into a front-line meat grinder, trying to survive with little support from armored vehicles, mortars, artillery, drones and tactical information.
"We're not getting any support," says a soldier named Sergei, who fought on the front lines in Bakhmut, as he sits down with his friend, also named Sergei, for a chat in a small café in the Konstantinovka market. Both men are in their 40s, but one is slightly older than the other.
It is said that Russian artillery, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers are often allowed to strike Ukrainian positions for hours or days without being overwhelmed by Ukrainian heavy weapons. Some complained of poor coordination and situational awareness, which often happened or made the situation worse.
Mortarmen talked about the extreme shortage of ammunition and the need to use weapons from the Second World War. Drones, which are supposed to provide important intelligence information, are also in small numbers and are being lost at a very high rate in some combat units.
All this leads to horrific casualties, both dead and wounded. "The battalion arrived in mid-December ... there were 500 of us in all platoons," says Boris, a military doctor from the Odessa region who fought in the Bakhmut area. "A month ago there were literally 150 of us."
When you enter a position, it's not even a 50/50 chance that you will return from there, - says senior Sergey. "It's more like 30/70."
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@Rybar’s SitRep of the Izyum Theatre (Balakleya-Kupyansk-Izyum Triangle), as of the end of September 8, 2022.
▪ By the evening of the third day of the Ukrainian offensive in the Kharkov region, Russian units left Balakleya. Russian Armed Forces and Rosgvardia fighters left the town in an orderly manner through a corridor on the eastern outskirts [GB: Reserves, it turns out, according to various reports, were earlier brought to Balakleya to punch through the corridor and to facilitate the withdrawal of the operationally encircled Russian units, not to support a battle for the control of the city.]
▪After capturing Volkhov Yar, Ukrainian forces advanced towards Shevchenkovo, where a part of the Ukrainian forces’ grouping blockaded the settlement, while other units continued towards Kupyansk.
▪ Late in the day, Ukrainian forces split up: some units reached the Kupyansk-Shevchenkovo highway near the village of Grushevka, occupying the settlement and starting preparations for a further assault on Kupyansk.
▪ Another part of the enemy grouping made a dash to the east, engaging in fighting near the village of Senkovo on the bank of the Oskol River. There is a bridge in the village, the seizure of which will make it possible to cut off Izyum's supply from the Kupyansk side.
▪Southeast of Balakleya, the Ukrainian army is attempting to advance towards Veseloye and Kunya, but enemy units were repulsed near Zaliman. Veseloye is a key transport interchange providing a link to Izyum.
▪ To the north of Slavyansk, the Ukrainian command plans to launch an offensive against Russian forces in Izyum in order to constrain their actions and prevent them from manoeuvring. Russian artillery and aviation are working intensively through the surrounding forests.
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@НиколайКазанский-м7я The West is gradually beginning to realize the consequences of the protracted conflict in Ukraine and is putting pressure on it to start negotiations with Russia.
The Western media abruptly changed the paradigm of covering the situation at the front and began to write that pate was considered taboo.
The Hill draws attention to the Joe Biden administration's evasion of direct questions about the territorial ownership of Crimea. The publication, referring to congressmen, concludes that the strategy of the White House is dictated by the need to "keep the doors open for peace talks."
The Wall Street Journal directly writes that during Biden's recent trip to Eastern Europe, he put pressure on the leaders of the Baltic countries and the Poles in order to abandon the dream of defeating Russia by military means. The newspaper quoted an unnamed senior European official as saying: "Ukraine's Eastern European allies fear a coordinated move by major Western capitals to sway Mr. Zelensky towards negotiations." How much more candid!
And during a conversation with Olaf Scholz in Washington, the well-known CNN TV presenter Farid Zakaria pointed out to the German Chancellor that the situation at the front for Ukraine and its allies looks like a stalemate, and frankly told him: “If this lasts for several years, Ukraine as a country will be destroyed” . Moreover, Zakaria directly called on Ukraine to realize the reality that it "will never return Crimea and part of the Donbass." Even Scholz was shocked by such frankness.
Particularly surprising is the note published today in the form of a letter on the pages of another influential newspaper - the Financial Times. Again, it says very frankly that Ukraine is obliged to return to the negotiating table with Russia, since a protracted war will not be beneficial either to the West, or especially to Ukraine itself.
Do you know why the note is remarkable? Because its authors are the leading experts of the notorious RAND Corporation Samuel Charap and Miranda Priebe - the same ones who recently published the sensational RAND report under the heading "How to avoid a long war." In this report, the experts clearly determined that the prolongation of hostilities in Ukraine is directly contrary to the interests of the United States. First of all, because it distracts Washington from its much more important rivalry with China.
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