RT.com – Sept 21, 2024
Russian forces may have captured up to 1,000 Ukrainian troops during the chaotic retreat from Avdeevka over the weekend, the New York Times has reported, citing anonymous Ukrainian and Western sources. The newspaper described the withdrawal from the former Ukrainian stronghold in Donbass as a “devastating loss” for Kiev that “could deal a blow to already weakening morale.”
On Friday, Ukraine’s newly appointed top military commander, General Aleksandr Syrsky, revealed that his forces had retreated from the strategic town located less than 10km from the outskirts of Donetsk. The following day, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the capture of Avdeevka, claiming to have inflicted massive casualties on Kiev’s military in the process.
Reporting on Tuesday, the NYT quoted two unnamed Ukrainian service members as putting the number of POWs and missing soldiers at anywhere between 850 to 1,000. Anonymous Western officials have characterized this range as accurate, the newspaper claimed.
While US officials supposedly do not consider the loss of Avdeevka to be strategically significant for Ukraine, the NYT reported that the “capture of hundreds of soldiers, especially those with battlefield experience,” could pose a serious problem. The Ukrainian military has for months been grappling with a lack of manpower, the newspaper added, noting that Kiev’s failed summer counteroffensive had already made recruitment difficult.
Anonymous Ukrainian soldiers blamed poor planning for the apparently high number of POWs. Kiev’s forces were also taken aback by the sheer speed with which Moscow’s troops advanced last week, with attempts by elite Ukrainian units to slow it down proving ineffective, the NYT wrote.
According to the article, poor communication between various Ukrainian units who are using different radio equipment may have been a factor.
On Saturday, General Aleksandr Tarnavsky, the commander of Ukrainian forces operating in the area, claimed that the retreat had gone according to plan. He did, however, acknowledge that “some Ukrainian servicemen fell into captivity,” without providing numbers. His spokesperson, Dmitry Lykhovy, dismissed reports of hundreds of Ukrainian POWs as misinformation.
During a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Avdeevka had been taken with minimal losses among Russian troops. He claimed that during their retreat, Ukrainian forces had left behind significant numbers of wounded soldiers, as well as military hardware and equipment.
i hear they are being well treated not like churchill who at the end of the war
kept on bombing and burning
he said he did not want to fed and guard defeated and wounded men
kill them all he told John Colvile
ONCE ERADICATED DISEASES BACK IN THE UK
The return of Victorian-era diseases are now back in the UK alarms health experts
Before Covid-19, Dr Farzana Hussain says, it was rare for her to see a case of scabies at her GP surgery in Newham, east London, but recently the number of patients with the parasitic skin infection has increased dramatically.
“By the time a patient comes to me for advice, everyone in the family has it, including all the children,” she says. “The itch is maddening. People demand immediate treatment.”Transmitted by tiny mites that burrow and lay eggs under the skin, scabies is a disease associated with squalor and overcrowding. Spread by close personal contact, it is so infectious that during the Victorian period, workhouses maintained separate “itch” wards so those infested with the mites could be segregated and treated before being allowed into the workhouse proper.
The survey translates into approximately 2,000 cases of scabies a year. However, in the north, the worst affected region of England, GPs are seeing rates as high as six per 100,000.
Scabies is not the only disease that appears to be making a comeback in Rishi Sunak’s Britain. In 2022, 423 patients were admitted to English hospitals with rickets, a disease caused by lack of sunlight and inadequate levels of vitamin D. The same year, 188 people were treated for scurvy, a condition caused by not eating enough fresh fruit and vegetables, leading to a deficiency in vitamin C.But are poverty and worsening social and economic conditions the only factors? According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), cases of measles – a disease for which there was no vaccine in Victorian times – are also increasing, with 1,603 suspected cases last year, more than four times the number in 2021.
Measles is also rife across the whole country and 2 cases on Bubonic plague in a Midlands Hospital
Britain is also seeing alarming increases in sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis and gonorrhoea. The latter is up 50% from 54,961 cases in 2021 to 82,592 in 2022. That’s the highest number since records began in 1918. And syphilis is up 15% to 8,692 in 2022, the highest number since 1948.
Some of this increase in new variants of STDs known as ” the gay plague”may be explained by more teenage prostitutes imported in by foreign gangs for the homo sexual trade.
The government are encouraging the use of home test kits, as half of UK sexual health clinics were closed. However, the scale of the increase also suggests more infections in the community.
According to the Local Government Association, in 2022 STD clinics conducted 4.5m consultations, a third more than in 2013. But because of cuts to frontline services and a shortage of sexual health counsellors, getting an appointment at a clinic can take weeks, and patients who succeed in getting one can face waits of up to four hours before being seen
we have to stop the igrants NOW
It maybe RT, but the first sentence contains a lie. Can you spot it?
They probably caught upwards of 1000 Nazis, but they were not all UKrainian Nazis.
Many were from official NATO Nazi states. Brits, French, Poles, Yanks, and even Israelis, because the money it better.
The telling aspect of this win, is that once your enemy has experienced the delight of ‘running away’, it becomes part of your regular behaviours, so should these fleeing Nazis decide, or be forced to fight again, they will run away much earlier, the next time.
Self preservation is a very powerful force, and these Nazi sheeple do it knowing full well they could be shot in the back, although, in this instance, it appears they were given orders to leg it, but even so, these orders were given far too late, hence the huge numbers captured.
Such discipline from the Russians, not to just gun these nasty Nazi bastards down, hands up or not.
Hitler was caught twice during WW1 by the British. It was standard practice to shoot all captured Nazis after they’d been forced to talk. Hitler was treated well, and released twice.
MIGRANT COSTS BANKRUPT BIRMINGHAM COUNCIL
Bankrupt Birmingham council to raise council tax by 21% and shed 600 jobs
Birmingham City Council will raise council tax by 21 per cent and cull up to 600 jobs in a bid to save £300m.
A spokesman said there are 40 UK councils bankrupt from constantly paying out on foreign migrants
Europe’s largest local authority issued a so-called section 114 notice last year, meaning it is essentially bankrupt, after it said it faced £760 million loss
In an urgent attempt to cut back spending, the council will dim street lights, waste collection intervals will increase to every two weeks and burial costs will rise as will council tax and hampering motorists
The local authority announced the provisional changes in a briefing on Monday where they set out how they will cut £150m from its budget in 2024-25 and the same again in 2025-26.Dimming streetlights will save up to £1m a year and cut-backs on highways maintenance such as pothole filling could save up to £12m, depending on the outcome of a Private Finance Initiative (PFI)- a partnership with the private sector.
Next to take a hit is adult social care which will be cut by £23.7m in the next financial year.The Children’s, Young People and Families department will have to find £51.5m savings.
Many Birmingham families are already very hard hit, with many parents skipping meals to feed children
The local authority asked ministers for permission to raise council tax by at least 10 per cent in each of the next two financial years.
The announcements come as council workers claim a backlog of historical equal pay claims have not yet been resolved.
“Birmingham City Council seem to have a plan for slashing local services, but they don’t yet have a plan for feeding its people
Speaking on Monday, Council Leader John Cotton told the BBC they were “really difficult decisions to take”.
Government people trafficks in migrants here and we have to find the money to look after them
“This is a big number we’re seeking to take out of the budget and clearly we know that these will have impacts on citizens in terms of services that they receive,” he said.
“What we’ve sought to do in framing this budget is we mitigate the impact on the most vulnerable, so we’ve ensured that adult social care and children’s services take a much lower percentage cut, but the bottom line is ” stop the migrants “
And now they’ll be transported to some Commie gulag & killed. Welcome to Whiteocide. Similar to how after WWII (1945-48) millions of German POW’s & citizens were intentionally starved to death in British/American/French/Russian concentration camps & nobody cared. No aid from the the UN/Red Cross etc..
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carl jones is a lying twat
carl jones is an even bigger lying wat
carl jones is a humungous wopping lying twat
thanks
‘… these orders were given far too late, hence the huge numbers captured.’
It seems that the ‘captured’ went into captivity very willingly. 1,000 unwilling armed soldiers cannot easy to capture. And the Russians collected the Ukrainian wounded too. But for the Russians, the wounded would have been left to die. That is a known Ukrainian practice.
‘And now they’ll be transported to some Commie gulag & killed.’ Utter garbage, grounded in nothing.
Lets hope Azov is wasting a bunch of Commies
and make only prisoner exchange 1:1 !
those not want return keep in russia under surveillance .
@CARL JONES
smearing Hitler you smear yourself !
surely he was no holy man like you .
great bubonic plage for europa . great achievement !
great bubonic plage for europa . great achievement !
great jewish communist LEFTISTGREEN progress !
those with head down are probably mercenaries
and wellfed !
those with head down are probably mercenaries
wellfed + with special assignment !
Surrender is the best bet for staying alive when your own side is forcing you into a meatgrinder. And to think for decades they berated the Soviets under Stalin for doing that same thing. It will take some effort and planning to get these men into safe areas without the US murdering them under the flag of a proxy, destroying their billets, wagons or planes just for the one-up on Russia propaganda.
Alex Christoforou says in a video it is confirmed a Russia helicopter pilot who fled with his aircraft to Ukraine has been tracked down and murdered in Spain under a false name. Russia’s secret agencies didn’t take long to find him, nor did it take long before the EU failed him.
> the number of POWs and missing soldiers at anywhere between 850 to 1,000
missing aint captured
during the glorious days of sailing pirates (the british/french/spanish/portugeuse/etc navies) who knows what percentage of sailors legged it whenever they got the chance – they used to anchor a mile off shore before any battle so that the mostly unable to swim sailors couldn’t “desert” after being press ganged
i wonder how many of the press ganged jewkranians are legging it
there aint a thousand in that photo – more like 50 – and hell, it might even be taken in london today – homeless whiteys?
The only good Commie is a dead Commie.
@ Eichman read “Hellstorm” by Thomas Goodrich and Eisenhowers “Rhine Meadows Death Camps” where he changed the status of POW’s to “enemy combatants” thus removing the protection of the Red Cross and Geneva conventions in order to starve them to death. Starvation is the preferred method of killing by talmudists.
that carl jones is such a numptie he needs an education
preferable by a boot in the balls
( if he has any )
twat