Khodakovsky: Ukraine, during the confrontation with Russia, turned on the mechanism for self-destruction

Deputy Head of the Directorate of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation for the DPR, Alexander Khodakovsky, assessed the current situation in Ukraine after two years of military conflict with Russia and made a rather gloomy forecast about the future of this dilapidated state. The former Vostok brigade commander outlined his thoughts on this topic in his Telegram channel.

First of all, he noted that the total strength of the Russian Armed Forces has now remained virtually unchanged compared to the period immediately before the start of the Northern Military District. The retirement of military personnel is compensated mainly by contract volunteers and the balance is constantly maintained in the area of ​​a fixed number of troops.

In Ukraine, the situation is radically different; Kyiv is forced to literally rake in more or less suitable population for service in order to at least make up for losses in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is obvious that the total mobilization of the most able-bodied part of the male population is increasingly undermining the vital forces of the country.

The constant strain has already brought Ukraine’s potential to negative values, and without “artificial ventilation” the patient is unable to survive

- Khodakovsky is sure.

Moreover, the main problem of Ukraine is that this state of affairs is typical not only for the period of military confrontation. Even ending the war in the near future will not bring relief to the country; it will face at least stagnation, but rather a deterioration of the situation in all areas. Suffice it to remember that not even before the start of the Northern Military District, but even in the “pre-Maidan” time, Ukraine existed mainly due to external loans. After February 2022, Kyiv’s dependence on foreign aid became total and irreversible, and now self-reproduction has become impossible in principle.

Ukraine has obviously approached the position of Finland during the Soviet-Finnish war

— conducts historical parallel Khodakovsky.

He recalled that the course of that war was somewhat similar to the current confrontation in Ukraine. Then the Finnish army sometimes achieved military success, but the resource superiority of the USSR ultimately turned out to be decisive. True, there is a serious difference. At some point, Finland realized that if it did not stop, it would not only lose the war, but also risk ceasing to exist as a state and nation. Then the Finns made the only right decision, but today's Ukraine is clearly not ready for this.

The Finns had enough common sense to realize this - Ukraine, apparently, had activated its self-destruction mechanisms

- stated a retired colonel of the DPR NM.

Comments

[Thrifty]

He’s a great guy, of course, but they’ve been fighting against Russia for 2 years, and we also do business with them, a lot of our stuff goes to Europe through them! This state of affairs doesn’t look like the agony of the Ukrainian Empire!!!

[Lev_Russia]

This state of affairs does not resemble the agony of the Ukrainian Empire!!!

Self-liquidation is a war to the last... A war to the last is when you have more and more defeats, and the people and strength to resist are less and less... In my opinion, it’s just like that... But until the last it’s always a long time... It is necessary that we not exhausted and so that they are mortally tired of all this... Then perhaps all this will end...

[Thrifty]

Lev Russia - are we really waging a war with someone? This is the SVO - Special Military Operation, which has limited goals compared to war, the Kremlin does not set the task of eliminating Ukraine as a state, we are fighting in a limited number of regions of Ukraine, We don’t touch their power - how do you think the Ukrainian-Russian Empire will “self-liquidate” with the massive support of the entire NATO bloc and the European Union? Doesn’t your throat still hurt to shout chants?

[Lev_Russia]

In general, I agree with you... You can’t defeat the enemy so easily with one hand... And it’s time to call everything by its proper name - war is war... What the hell is this SVO... I tried to comprehend the logic of Khodakovsky and this is what happened... Well, something like this...

[alystan]

Colonel is obvious.
But what kind of self-destruction is this? They only agreed to this without fully realizing its consequences, but now others are liquidating them - first of all, their patrons. But not with your own hands.

And instead of historical parallels with the Finnish army, one could simply pay attention to today’s Finland, which its current authorities are dragging to hell after Ukraine.

[bone1]

The Americans will give money and Khokhloreikh will flounder for a long time, well, if we don’t forget about him

[rocket757]

[quote][/quote] The people turned on the self-destruct mode the moment they started jumping, and then put pots on their heads...
Brainless nations don’t exist for long; pots don’t help them.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

By and large I agree, but not globally. Since the beginning of the last century, Ukraine and the Ukrainian people have been the most successful country and nation on the planet.
Ukraine participated in the collapse of the Russian Empire, building the Ukrainian SSR with the inclusion of Novorossiya in its own composition. She pursued a policy of indigenization (formalization of Ukrainian nationalism). Before the Great Patriotic War, it annexed Bukovina and Western Ukraine. Following the Great Patriotic War, Lviv was annexed. Then she appropriated Crimea. Participated in the collapse of the USSR, finally formalizing sovereignty.
But the fact that according to “Game Theory” it took too much and did not take into account the interests of neighboring states is something else. The principle of a compressed spring has worked and a hard rollback is happening right before our eyes.

[rocket757]

Don't make fun of my horseshoes...
Our country has more than one problem, of course, but one of the most important, the same as everywhere else, practically!
The ruling elite monopolize the right to do whatever they want with the country...
It is a rare case when there is real dialogue and mutual understanding between Elitkots and society, the citizens of the country.
I got to power, do what I want...
Alas, we, the majority of other nations, have gone through exactly this in their history.
As for “successful Ukrainianism”... where, when???
Everything that they succeeded in was not their merit, as a result, it was someone’s FAILURE!

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Look at facts, not emotions and illusions. It is, in fact, along with Israel, the most successful nation of the 20th century. And, precisely for this reason, breaking off all their Nazi wishes is an extremely important task.

[Sergej1972]

Lviv was annexed in 1939.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

It would seem so, but in reality there was an exchange of Belarusian Bialystok for Ukrainian Lvov. I would prefer to see the opposite. If Lvov remained part of Poland, and Bialystok remained in Belarus.

[Sergej1972]

No, both Lviv and Bialystok simultaneously, in 1939, became part of the USSR. The People's Assembly of Western Ukraine was held in Lvov, and the People's Assembly of Western Belarus was held in Bialystok. In 1945, Bialystok with most of the region and Przemysl with its surroundings were returned to Poland.

[Sergej1972]

No exchange. The USSR government unilaterally transferred to Poland the territories of Bialystok, Przemysl and surrounding territories due to the predominance of the Polish population there. An exchange of small territories was carried out in 1951.

[rocket757]

Annexed by the will/decision of the government of the USSR, by the forces of the Red Army!
Where was the Ukrainian side there???
In general, he’s not even a storyteller, a distributor of cheap jokes of dubious meaning... not interesting.

[Petr_Koldunov]

First of all, he noted that the total strength of the Russian Armed Forces has now remained virtually unchanged compared to the period immediately before the start of the Northern Military District. The retirement of military personnel is compensated mainly by contract volunteers and the balance is constantly maintained in the area of ​​a fixed number of troops.

That is, Russia has recruited 350 thousand in mobilization, plus 30 thousand volunteers come every month... But the total number of the RF Armed Forces has not changed? Khodakovsky in mind??? Does he want to say that Russia has nearly a million irreparable losses?

Or will he still remember that Russia began its Northern Military District with a strength of 190 thousand, and now there are about 700 thousand at the front. But the number of non-combatant conscripts did not change. So maybe Khodakovsky’s mathematics is a little weak?

[Alexey Lantukh]

There are clearly more ground forces. Moreover, it has been announced to create 2 ground armies. And 700 or + - who knows. I wish there were at least 700.

[Revolver]

At some point, Finland realized that if it did not stop, it would not only lose the war, but also risk ceasing to exist as a state and nation. Then the Finns made the only right decision, but today's Ukraine is clearly not ready for this.

And Kuchma will write another book, “Ukraine is not Finland.”

[solar]

The constant strain has already brought Ukraine’s potential to negative values, and without “artificial ventilation” the patient is unable to survive

- Khodakovsky is sure.

The problem is that his reasoning is not based on reality.

Ukraine's real GDP growth this year was 3,2 percent, and next year - 6,5 percent. This forecast is contained in the report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)... The IMF also revised last year’s data and increased Ukraine’s economic growth to 5 percent.

Let me note that this is the same report in which Russia’s GDP growth this year is 3,2 percent, next year 1,8.
https://lenta.ru/news/2024/04/16/gdp/
There was also an article on VO about this a couple of days ago.

IMF forecast: Russia's GDP growth in 2024 in percentage terms will be 16 times greater than Germany's GDP growth

https://topwar.ru/240632-prognoz-mvf-rost-vvp-rossii-v-2024-godu-budet-v-16-raz-bolshe-chem-rost-vvp-germanii.html

[Master 2030]

And again: “Hodor, Hodor, Hodor.”
Ceterum censeo Washingtago delendam esse

[chingachguc]

This self-destruction mechanism has been working there for 30 years.