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HenryMakow.com – May 4, 2022

“The Ukraine has lost the war.

All the weapons systems the ‘west’ is now pushing into it are of no use as the Ukraine obviously lacks the men to field them. They will likely get pilfered and in future  some of them may well be used against the ‘west’ itself.

They would do some bloody justice.”

Ukraine’s Army Is In Very Bad Shape – More Fighting Will Only Destroy It

by Moon Over Alabama – (Abridged by henrymakow.com)

The French news agency AFP has published a report by Daphne Rousseau from near the Ukrainian front line. It allows us to gain some realistic view of the state of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Exhausted Ukrainian soldiers return from eastern front

… As the Ukrainian troops had to walk 12 kilometers a question arises. Where are their armored carriers? Even when infantry is deployed in dugouts and trenches its transport should always be nearby (~3 km) to be able to quickly pick it up when necessary.

The most likely answer is that those BTR-70, as well as the brigade’s artillery, no longer exist. From today’s ‘clobber list’ as published by the Defense Ministry of Russia (emphasis added):

In total, 146 aircraft and 112 helicopters, 683 unmanned aerial vehicles, 281 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,756 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 316 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,234 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,563 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation….

The Ukrainian army is obviously in a very bad shape as it pushes barely trained conscripts to the frontline where Russian artillery will eat them up. That it is in such a state is not astonishing though.

The Swiss military intelligence officer Jacques Baud has worked in the Ukraine and has written about the current war (here, here and here). He describes the sorry state the Ukrainian military was in from the get-go:

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