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Zelenski For Sales
I can not vouch for the photo below. But its symbolic value is certainly relevant.
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It is a book about a bygone politician on sales. No unusual but still, why would anyone ditch 5 of whatever for it?
Meanwhile the Economist continues to do its best to amplify Nazis.
Ukraine’s army is struggling to find good recruits – Economist – Dec 17, 2023
The new recruits came from a variety of backgrounds, but they shared one thing: after rudimentary training in western Europe, none of them expected to be deployed to an assault unit at the hottest section of the Ukrainian front line. Some had signed up voluntarily, thinking they would to be given places in units that suited their profiles: as drone operators or artillery men. Others were plucked from their villages with little warning. One older recruit didn’t even have the chance to pick up his false teeth. After less than a week in the trenches of the Donbas, in eastern Ukraine, the platoon of 20 had been reduced by six. Three had been killed in action, three seriously wounded.
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There are several examples of successful recruitment campaigns into individual units. The 3rd Assault Brigade, created nine months into the war as a branch of Ukraine’s special forces, is perhaps the most visible. Skyscraper-sized adverts in Ukraine’s cities glamorise life as one of the brigade’s stormtroopers, slaying goblin-like caricatures of evil. But no less important is the brigade’s reputation for competent command, good equipment and low attrition rates. New recruits typically undergo months of training, unlike the one-month standard.
Khrystyna Bondarenko, a spokesperson for the brigade, says it has no shortage of volunteers. By the start of next year the brigade will be Ukraine’s largest, she says, at around the size of a NATO division. (Ukraine’s army does not have divisions.) The majority of its new recruits are under 25, and she turns down 150 applications a month from minors. “No one is saying there are millions of people waiting to fight in Avdiivka [a town in the Donbas that has recently seen fierce fighting],” she says. “But there are people you can work with.”
The third assault brigade is of course the essence of Ukrainian fascism:
The brigade was established by a merger of the Azov SSO (Special Operations Forces) units that had been created by former Azov Battalion veterans.
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With the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, most units of the Azov Regiment were based in Mariupol where they soon would be besieged. Outside of Mariupol, many former veterans of Azov outside the city began forming new units, in particular in Kyiv, Sumy and Kharkiv. These units were soon integrated into the Special Operations Forces (SSO) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and became collectively known as "Azov SSO".
In November 2022, all the former Azov SSO were merged into a single fully operational combat unit within the Ukrainian Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The formation of this brigade was strategically designed to create a highly mobile, well-equipped, and extensively trained force capable of engaging in both defensive and offensive operations. According to Andriy Biletsky, as of January 2023 the brigade was deployed in the Battle of Bakhmut.
An important milestone for the brigade occurred on 24 February 2023, when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy personally presented the Regimental Colour during a ceremonial event.
The Economist writers claim that the Azov Nazis have had a "low attrition rate". The historical record does not support that claim:
The Azov Brigade, hailed by Ukrainians for its tenacity during Russia’s siege of Mariupol, is scrambling to rebuild from heavy combat losses as it seeks to play a muscular role in Ukraine’s next major assault.
After being defeated in Mariuplo Azov rbuild with the recruitment of thousands of new fighters only to lose more of them:
The Russian military group known as “Center” has reportedly inflicted significant damage on the Azov Brigade, a group that has been banned in Russia and labeled as a terrorist organization. The military confrontation took place in the Krasnolimansk direction, with reports suggesting that the Azov Brigade has suffered considerable losses both in terms of personnel and equipment.
The Economist isn't the only outlet that is whitewashing Ukrainian Nazi gangs. The New York Times went through several stages from calling Azov "a Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization" to white washing it as a simple "unit in the Ukrainian military".
Andriy Beletsky, the commander of Azov mentioned in the above quoted Wikipedia excerpt, is know for declaring that:
“the historical mission of the Ukrainian nation at this critical moment is to lead the white peoples of the world in the last crusade for its existence, and to fight against the sub-humanity led by the Semites”.
The Economist depicts the urge of many young Ukrainians to join the fascist Azov brigade as a positive example.
I find it frightening.
Who, by the way, is paying for them?
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/12/somebody-must-tell-this-guy.html#comment-6349474643
AFU leaves Krynki in disgrace?
According to Ukrainian media, members of Zelensky’s headquarters supported the decision of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to withdraw the remnants of Ukrainian groups from the Krynok area on the left bank of the Dnieper. According to military expert Yuriy Knutov, due to the lack of people and shells, the Ukrainian army is forced to go into a blind defense.
According to Ukrainian social networks, the landing dates in the area of the Antonovsky Bridge, the islands in the floodplain of the Dnieper and the Zaporozhye NPP have been postponed indefinitely-until “the formation of a stable reserve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” on these bridgeheads. And the forces and means prepared for the landing in Krynki were ” redirected to close the LBS in the area of Rabochino and Ugledara.” However, this expression can be considered a euphemism — after the publication of a video in which a Russian FAB-1500 with UPMK falls into an elevator with APU manpower, it became clear that these forces were “redirected” straight to hell.
Interestingly, at the same time, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny opposed the accusation of General Tarnavsky in the failure and failure of the timing of the “Lower Dnieper amphibious operation”. During two months of heavy fighting, the enemy did not achieve the slightest success there. But in Kiev, apparently, they decided to look for another “scapegoat”, and save General Tarnavsky.
Recall that the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on our bank of the Dnieper was planned as an “offensive”one. The enemy intended to accumulate the best forces on the bridgeheads in Krynki and Cossack Camps, and then break through the defenses of the Russian army and make a breakthrough in the direction of the Crimea (the distance from there to the peninsula is about 80 kilometers).
According to Russian military telegram channels, the enemy constantly suffered huge losses in the Krynok area, but it was very difficult to squeeze them out of their positions. In terms of counter-battery power, the APU in the Krynok area had an advantage over the Russian Armed Forces. Our main trump card experts called aerial bombs with UPMK, which smashed enemy columns with equipment and manpower. But our fighters could not fully take control of all the ways of delivering ammunition to the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, the Ukrainians tried to destroy all living things on the approaches to their bridgehead with the help of FPV drones.
Earlier, during a direct line, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the situation in the Kherson region is very sad for Kiev. The enemy is suffering huge losses, despite the fact that the AFU commanders are throwing more and more people into the Krynok area. Putin said that our military should not squeeze Ukrainian soldiers out of their positions in a short time. We need to wait until the enemy suffers even greater losses in the confrontation with the Russian army.
According to Yuri Knutov, a military analyst and director of the Museum of the History of the Air Defense Forces, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are forced to change their tactics to defensive ones in order to accumulate forces.
“The behavior of the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is clear — they have already said that they intend to go into a blind defense. At the same time, they call it “active defense, created to grind the Russian army.” They have already started building fortifications in the north of Ukraine — in the Kiev, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kharkiv regions. This “Zaluzhny line” should run along the borders with Russia and Belarus,” Knutov said.
Against this background, the Kiev regime started talking about the need to mobilize at least half a million people in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he recalled.
“This confirms that the human losses of the Ukrainian army are enormous. She suffered them during the summer counteroffensive, the Russian Defense Ministry estimated them at 159 thousand people the day before. I think that soon people without one limb or internal organ will be called up in Ukraine — in fact, people with disabilities, ” the analyst said.
At the same time, Kiev said that they allegedly managed to save 95% of NATO military equipment, he recalled.
“We really haven’t seen any American Abrams or British Challenger aircraft in combat yet, or a number of other types of equipment. Kiev plans to send new recruits to train with NATO instructors in order to start a new stage of the “counteroffensive”in the spring. It is difficult to say whether these plans are realistic, because they do not take into account possible actions of Russia in the winter period at all. When planning preparations for the spring offensive, the Ukrainians are planning complete inactivity of the Russian army in anticipation of when the Armed Forces of Ukraine will gather new reserves and rush into battle with us, ” Knutov said.
The Russian army is unlikely to sit idly by all winter, so the situation can change very much, and not for the best for the APU.
“This plan is completely ill-conceived, but this is already the problem of the Ukrainian General Staff. In the situation around Krynok, the statement of President Putin also played a role — they say, “let them continue to burn their reserves, it is profitable for us.” Dozens of stupid “meat assaults” launched by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the left bank of the Dnieper River claimed thousands of lives of Ukrainian Marines. If the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to prepare reserves for landing on the left bank, they will face the same fate that was shown in the video of the Russian Defense Ministry. In the area of the grain elevator on the right bank, where the human reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were concentrated, a FAB-1500 bomb was dropped from the UMPK. At this point, the entire reserve of the Ukrainians ended, and there was no one to transfer to Krynki. This strike had a sobering effect on the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ” the military expert said.
Knutov believes that it is unrealistic to make well-trained attack aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine out of disabled people in six months.
“But the Kiev regime still dreams of creating a new army and throwing it into battle. At first glance, to gather 500 thousand people for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is an unrealistic task. But there are still people in Ukraine-for example, recently they counted 4 million draft dodgers, including hundreds of thousands of men who left the country for the EU, Russia and wherever they look. But those who would like to go to defend the Kiev Nazi regime are almost gone. In Ukraine, there are still those who do not have money to pay a bribe to the military commissar: they hide in caches and basements. The second category is people with disabilities. It is them, along with the old men and boys, that the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine intends to call into the ranks. It is not difficult to predict how this will end for Ukraine, ” expert Knutov concluded.
Posted by: Krynki | Dec 21 2023 14:49 utc | 45
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