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Ukraine – Killing Surrendering Soldiers, Shelling Civilians
At 8:30 UTC today I checked the priorities of the day on major U.S. news websites.
- On the New York Times homepage the word "Trump" appeared 10 times, "Ukraine" appeared 5 times.
- On the Washington Post homepage the word "Trump" appeared 12 times, "Ukraine" appeared 5 times.
- On the Wall Street Journal homepage the word "Trump" appeared 9 times, "Ukraine" appeared 3 times.
The Google Trends graph for Ukraine has fallen to near zero.
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This is a problem because it takes pressure off the Biden administration to negotiate with Russia over Ukraine and the future security architecture in Europe.
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Today's daily 'clobber list' by the Russian Ministry of Defense includes an additional chapter taken from the verbal briefing:
I would like to note that in recent weeks, incidents involving the shooting of Ukrainian servicemen in the back by nationalist units have become more frequent in areas of military operations.
Thus, after a fire preparation for an attack by Russian troops near Novomikhailovka in Donetsk People's Republic, more than 30 servicemen of the 25th Battalion of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the AFU decided to lay down their arms and surrender.
Ukrainian servicemen occupying a stronghold near Zvioroferma asked the Russian unit command via radio to cease fire and provide a corridor for exit.
Around 10 p.m., AFU servicemen with white flags began moving towards Russian positions.
At that moment, a Ukrainian nationalist barrier unit arrived at the stronghold in armored vehicles and opened crossfire in the back on the servicemen of the 54th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As a result of this shooting, 32 Ukrainian servicemen were fatally wounded and killed.
This incident, as well as many others like it, clearly demonstrates that amid growing military failures and demoralization of Ukrainian troops, the Kiev nationalist regime is trying to stop the retreat and surrender of its units by punitive actions of barrier squads.
I have seen no evidence that supports the details of the above incident. But there have been public reports that somewhat prominent people who are opposed to the war or criticize the Zelenski regime get picked up the Ukrainian SBU (the former KGB) or some 'nationalist', ie. fascist goons to then vanish. It is thereby not astonishing to read that similar events, on a likely larger scale, are happening at the frontline of the war.
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The Ukrainian artillery is said to fire only 6,000 rounds per day for lack artillery ammunition. Yesterday 300 projectiles were fired by the Ukrainian army or by 'nationalists' onto civilian areas of 'rebel' held city of Donetsk. There were at lest 7 dead and 22 wounded. Graham Phillips provides a video report of the impacts and damage (vid). To use 5% of the daily ammunition ration to terrorize civilians in Donetsk is not only despicable but dumb as those artillery troops will now receive intensified attention they deserve.
Levi @Levi_godman – 11:42 UTC · Jun 14, 2022
❗️The DPR asks Russia to use additional Iskanders and aircraft to destroy the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Meanwhile Russia is providing a humanitarian corridor for civilians and surrendering Ukrainian troops who leave the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk. The scheme is similar to the corridors at the Azov steelworks in Mariupol where it worked well.
Nice rosy assessment posted by @196.
If you read Strelkovs TG channel it is quite different. His view is that the RF forces are in a bad state and the general staff were and are corrupt and incompetent.
Another commentator in Russian:
(Use translation service like DeepL)
https://kenigtiger.livejournal.com/2152155.html
Discussing the possible military significance of the shelling of Donetsk, Strelkov writes that “the main forces [of the LNR and DNR – my note] continue to ‘browbeat’ the enemy’s fortifications near Lysychansk and in the Slavyansk direction.
Let’s be correct, at least in the area of the “neck” of the Lysychansk cauldron, which cannot be closed in any way, even the united forces of the LNR and DNR simply do not have the strength to “browbeat” anything.
Since our “SVO cartographers” are depressing and sad, let’s turn to Ukropian maps.
Of course, where we see red ledges moving forward, there are already enemy fortifications, some of which are already ours. They, these fortifications, are everywhere now, the AFU can dig perfectly well, there is no shortage of shovels and picks, I suppose. But what you see on the screenshot doesn’t look like “beating your head against what was dug around Zolote for many years of the static front”.
As I wrote earlier, the artillery that was supposed to cover Donetsk from what is now happening has moved to the neck of the “Lisichansk cauldron” for some time now. Along with the most combat-ready units of 1 AK. In an attempt to personally organize another attack of which General Kutuzov died. So this whole strategic maneuver is no mystery to the AFU.
Here, when our generals simply do not have people left for crazy idiocy like “Go ahead, you will figure it out”, slowly and painfully the experience of correct warfare is being accumulated. Finally on a larger scale than “one battalion and one battery attached to it.
Since the gasoline-powered Orlan-10 UAVs, capable of hovering for hours over the enemy’s close rear, or similar vehicles for counter-battery warfare are critically lacking, the artillery of the 1st Army Corps decided to use it at its most effective – to support the offensive. When you have to take out the fortifications on the front line or in the second line, the “toy” Maviks are quite enough. In fact, just today I sent another Mavic 3 to the Donetsk people. Of course, it doesn’t solve the problem of the enemy batteries in the rear, which wake up during the attack, but it is at least some efficiency.
Actually, if you missed it, read a recent separate text about it.
For the Kassad who raves about the frontal assaults on Avdeevka, which are supposedly an alternative to what is happening, it is advisable to get lost and look at the same Ukrainian map in the Avdeevka area. We also ran out of men there for February-March-April-style frontal assaults, and our people there have long been going around Avdeevka via Verkhnetoretskoye-Novobakhmutovka.
That is, the question is not that it is more inconvenient to chew through the AFU defense in the DNR than in the LNR. The question is that, in the absence of the necessary number of gasoline-powered aircraft-type UAVs capable of providing successful counter-battery warfare, the artillery capable of this struggle is quite logically removed from near Donetsk and transferred to the place where it can help the infantry to achieve the maximum result. And this result, if you look at the map, is objectively looming larger as a result of the closing of the Lisichansk cauldron.
Of course, the AFU is interested in pulling the artillery away from the neck of the “cauldron,” and that is why they are organizing “Luhansk 2014” in Donetsk. By the way, I do not rule out that, as Strelkov writes, the AFU may try to take some positions near Donetsk, so that both artillery and infantry can return there. In fact, if I were them, I would be redeploying forces to do just that right now, watching the Donetsk infantry moving further and further around Vrubovka and bypassing Zolote via Kamyshevakha. If this kind of attack by the AFU succeeds, it will “freeze” the front for a long time, and not in the most advantageous configuration for us. I mean, maybe one more general will go and kill himself on Ukrainian artillery before that, but then the front will “freeze” after all.
And now, as Grubnik rightly pointed out, the civilians of Donetsk are paying with their own blood for years of stories by Russian generals and their backstabbers in plain clothes about how everything in our army is fine, we have everything, and “we’ll give the Khokhlovs a piece of our mind”.
(Continues at link above)
Posted by: Moaobserver | Jun 14 2022 21:30 utc | 209
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