Do not think that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are demoralized and will soon simply run away from the front line
I recently watched a video made by our drone after our artillery worked on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is a symphony, not a video. Mozart, Tchaikovsky and all the other greats in one video. Fabulous. Grandiose.
It was not the soldiers and officers who did this, but the brilliant artists. Here you have heavy artillery with excellent hits on concrete fortifications. And more modest calibers to completely remove enemy anti-tankers. And mortars to disperse the infantry from the field fortifications. In a word - a symphony ... It's beautiful how the sewing machine went through the fabric ...
And I remembered the numerous videos filmed by the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Troops, in which they complain about their commanders and chiefs, who did not fully provide the units with weapons, ammunition, food ... They complain that they were not prepared for the database. And, by the way, the fighters are the same teroborontsy, most of them veterans of the ATO. Today they are rowing on the streets of everyone in a row.
Of course, it's nice to watch such videos. The enemy is defeated!.. Well, almost... Soon all Ukrainian units will scatter like cockroaches, and the operation will end. Only reports from the fronts cool the head a little. The military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are snapping. The fights are getting serious.
Our units and subunits are fighting not with demoralized and incapable of resistance formations, but with a serious, well-motivated enemy. Yes, and all these "Degtyarevs" and "Maxims" that our TV channels talk about are more exceptions than the rule. The flow of Western aid has not yet stopped.
Then the question arises of why such videos appear, and whether the tears of the Ukrainian military should be believed. Especially in light of the fact that these, frankly, panicky materials have already appeared in the foreign press.
Heroes whose death the West is to blame
The fact that such materials from the allegedly indignant military will appear soon became clear already during the operation to liberate Mariupol. Remember Zelensky's bravura statements that it is impossible to take Mariupol? Many today gossip about a bluff on the part of Kyiv. But the facts say otherwise.
After the liberation and especially the capture of Azovstal, it became clear that the defense was being prepared there for many months. Armament, ammunition, food, the composition of the garrison - all this is striking in scale. Yes, and equipped positions too. Today it is already safe to say that the NM DPR is one of the most well-armed in Europe. Moreover, armed with the most modern European and American captured samples.
But what did they talk about in the president's office after Mariupol was taken, and Azov and others were driven into holes under Azovstal? According to Zelensky, the helicopter pilots who broke through to Azov deliberately went to their death on their own initiative. Such an interesting army, where the officers themselves decide whether to fly them on a combat mission or sit at the airfield in a smoking room, because there is strong air defense.
And the prisoners surrendered not because living in the dungeons and waiting for the next shell or bomb to cover you, while not even being able to get to the surface without the risk of being killed, became unbearable. They surrendered because, according to Zelensky, the West did not fulfill its promises and did not provide the defenders of Mariupol with heavy weapons. And any street boy knows that "there is no reception against scrap."
Even then it became clear that the Ukrainian authorities would do everything to relieve themselves of responsibility. Both the president and the military command. And the choice of those to whom this responsibility can be shifted is rather limited. Either Russia or the West. Attempts to blame everything on the Russians no longer impress Ukrainians, Europeans, or Americans.
It is clear that the task of the enemy cannot be to help Kyiv. So the company began to accuse NATO of insufficient supply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There are a lot of materials in the media on this topic. The meaning of the articles is quite simple. Huge, well-armed and motivated Russia is killing ordinary Ukrainian lads, who, apart from "clubs and slings", have practically nothing. And NATO calmly looks at it.
We have nothing to fight again ...
Simply put, Ukraine cannot defend the West without arms supplies. But how do panic videos relate to deliveries? A very indicative example is the famous video of the fighters of the 115th Troop Brigade (Cherkassy), where the company commander Sergey Lapko tells how hard it is for them in the war.
“They already know where we are, and when a Ukrainian tank fires from our side, it gives away our position. And they begin to shoot back at everyone - "Grads", mortars. And you just pray to survive."
What follows is a story about how little they prepared. As there was not enough ammunition to carry out firing practice, as there was not enough time for tactical training. The resulting weapons also leave much to be desired. In short, a company of those sentenced to death.
And here is a report about this company and an interview with the commander in a strange way, and we are already used to how the Western media publish materials in the conditions of “freedom of speech”, published in the American The Washington Post. American correspondents accidentally ended up in the same Druzhkovka, where Lapko and his deputy Vitaly Khrus brought the deserted company.
And the tearful interview of the Ukrainian officer ends with a story about the terrible losses that the company suffered during the three months of being on the front line. Of the 120 fighters who left Uzhgorod, 54 remained in the unit! The rest were killed, wounded and ... deserted.
Imagine the reaction of an American brought up in the wars in the Hollywood version. Those are the heroes. Three months without Coca-Cola and sauna. And, accordingly, a question for President Biden - why does America help such heroes so little?
Basically, well thought out. In the style of film directors. Heroes who can take on the Russian war machine with little or no weapons, with the most powerful American weapons, the Russian hordes will easily defeat. Hence the simple conclusion - it is necessary to increase supplies to Ukraine! I even think that on Bankovaya they rubbed their hands with pleasure while reading The Washington Post.
But war is not theater or cinema. And the "heroes" from the 115th brigade are not the only teroborontsy who were sent to the front line.
No need to throw snowballs at the snow peak hanging over the valley
And here we move on to the events that began to happen next. Today, 32 territorial defense brigades have been formed on the territory of Ukraine. Of these, 25 were sent to the combat zone. And they are in approximately the same position as the 115th brigade.
The personnel of the brigades, for objective reasons, does not consist of ATO veterans who participated in a completely different war, but is made up of civilians who had little idea of what military operations were. But most importantly, in the post-Maidan years, both of them got used to the fact that any problem can be solved by taking power by the throat.
So Kyiv got a "surprise" almost childish. Even the highly publicized arrest of the "rioters" has not stopped other complaints videos from appearing online. Moreover, there were videos from the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For example, from the 71st Jaeger Brigade, 14th OBMr. True, the military, unlike the defencemen, are much less radical, because they know what such videos threaten. The avalanche, which was caused by another operation of the information troops, began ...
For example, I was very pleased with the situation that happened to a well-known Maidan activist and propagandist Yuri Butusov, editor-in-chief of the scandalous publication Censor.net (banned in the Russian Federation). Butusov called to save Ukrainian soldiers and withdraw them from Severodonetsk and Lysichansk. Let me remind you that Serhiy Gaidai, the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, proposed exactly the same thing.
This was enough to forget all "the merits of Butusov as a fighter against Russia." Almost on the day of publication, he was accused of "information playing along with Russia", and the people's deputy Maryana Bezuglaya directly called on the SBU to arrest the journalist Butusov!
But even more surprised was former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It is absolutely impossible to accuse someone of someone, but this person of pro-Russian sentiments. However, he also called on Zelensky to sit down at the negotiating table with Moscow. And, accordingly, he got his own page on the "Peacemaker".
That's how it happens, you can, it turns out, be in the same company with the enemy, without even realizing it. Probably, this situation caused laughter from many worthy people from this list. 90-year-old politician suddenly became pro-Russian…
Will there be a continuation?
This question interests many. Is this really a downfall or one of the many unsuccessful operations of Ukrainian politicians? In my opinion, there will definitely be a sequel. But not in the form in which readers think, far from the real war.
The army exists according to special laws. Especially during the fighting. One of these laws says that you can not send an unfired unit into battle. This threatens to panic not only among the soldiers, but also among the commanders. What, in principle, is happening in the divisions of the TRO. They are not ready for modern combat.
That is why, as I think, in the near future these units will be removed from the front line and disbanded. The personnel will go in parts to replenish the combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is not for nothing that Zelensky has already signed an order to extend all the benefits for soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Teroboronets. The experiment with the "type of soldiers", I think, is over.
Now about spontaneous performances in the troops. I believe that Ukraine has not forgotten the wording "according to the laws of war." Yes, such a proposal has not yet passed in the Rada, but I am almost sure that in one interpretation or another it will soon be accepted. Will it be another law or an order in the style of Marshal Stalin's famous order number 227 "Not a step back!" - It's not clear yet. It is incomprehensible simply because the Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief is too cowardly ...
Well, the last. In my telegram channel, I often read comments that UkroSMI publish staged videos about how good things happen somewhere in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I agree, these are often staged videos. Nobody canceled the propaganda. But the way the Ukrainian units are fighting shows that there is no collapse and demoralization there. There is also fighting going on. Common to any war.
So - to be continued, as they say at the end of some series ...
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