Tom Porter – Business Insider Dec 5, 2023
- A Ukrainian soldier told the BBC of the situation on a key part of the frontline.
- The soldier said some troops feel “abandoned” by the command, the outlet reported.
- Ukrainian forces are battling to hold onto territory won back near the Dnipro River.
A Ukrainian soldier told the BBC that Ukrainian forces fighting to defend a crucial part of the frontline feel “abandoned” by their command.
The soldier, who the BBC did not name, described the situation near Kherson, south Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces recently won back territory on the Russian-occupied east bank of the Dnipro River near the village of Krynky.
In the interview, the soldier described how Ukrainian forces are struggling to reinforce and resupply their positions amid intense Russian attacks.
“We paid for a lot of our own kit – buying generators, power banks and warm clothes ourselves. Now the frosts are coming, things will only get worse – the real situation is being hushed up, so no one will change anything,” he told the BBC.
“No one knows the goals. Many believe that the command simply abandoned us. The guys believe that our presence had more political than military significance. But we just did our job and didn’t get into strategy.”
The soldier also told the BBC that many of the marines sent to help defend the Dnipro River were so inexperienced they “can’t even swim.”
In the summer, Ukraine launched a wide-ranging counteroffensive to drive back Russian forces from territory they occupy in south and east Ukraine.
The fighting had degenerated into a stalemate, but recent Ukrainian successes in attacks across the Dnipro had raised hopes in Kyiv.
As the war has dragged on, Ukraine has encountered manpower problems. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a TV address last week after meeting senior commanders, said reinforcing parts of the frontline coming under intense attack was a key priority.
“In all major sectors where reinforcement is needed, [we must] speed up building of structures,” he said in his nightly address, reported the AFP.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Welcome to Whiteocide. Both governments of Ukraine & Russia are ruled by Jews. Most likely they’re covertly coordinating these battles to wipe out thousands/millions of whites. The white dummies of the West though can’t figure this out.
Ukraine is being depopulated so the red Russian Khazarians illegally, criminally, militarily occupying Palestine while Holocausting the Indigenous Semitic Palestinian Descendants of the Biblical Judians can retreat back to their ancestral homeland when the massed armies of Freedom Fighters come for them.
They were abandoned and betrayed right from the bringing. Their treachery has no limits. Ever since the Soros groups descended on the nation some 11 years ago, the Rothschild dynasty has marked it for deconstruction. They appointed one government after another to create divisions and hostilities in the eastern regions, until they placed the completely Zio one under Zelensky to really prod the bear and start the war.
Recalling how that dynasty has so openly taken credit for the creation of the Israeli state, and totally backs all of the ruthless Zionist expansionist efforts in and around that state, you have to wonder when we are to hear that the poor, homeless Ashkenazi Jews were also driven from their homelands in and around the Ukraine, and that therefore, they also ought to have the same rights as the Jews who came from the Middle East to their promised land. For this to happen the nation would have to be completely bankrupted, the Russians out of the picture, and the remaining population in no position to reject the takeover.
Jews behind Russia-Ukraine war to form new Jewish state https://www.jpost.com/international/article-703061
Zelenskyy wants Ukraine to be ‘a big Israel.’ Here’s a road map.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/zelenskyy-wants-ukraine-to-be-a-big-israel-heres-a-road-map/
No pain, no gain, here in purgatory. It’s simply how we learn.
Nevertheless, it is set to end soon as Mother Nature rolls in with her cyclical cleanup op.
I hope you drafting fanatics bite the dust after
hundred thausands peace loving victims thrown
into the meatgrinder . and take your jewish rulers
with you !