Ukrainian troops rest in the Pokrovsk region last week after returning from their frontline positions
Introduction – Sept 27, 2024
Ignore the opening paragraph, which claims a small group of middle-aged Ukrainian soldiers withstood a barrage of rockets and then killed more than 100 Russian troops.
In plain language it is bullxxxx. The Russians are trying to minimize their casualties so if they encounter stiff resistance they won’t unnecessarily sacrifice troops trying to overwhelm the Ukrainians. Instead, they will call in artillery support or air strikes to neutralise the position that’s causing problems.
That’s why the Russian advance west has been relatively slow. They’ve been taking out Ukrainian resistance slowly and methodically, in an effort to minimise their casualties.
Read beyond the opening paragraphs however, and it’s apparent that large parts of the Ukrainian Army are now on the verge of collapse. Ed.
Ukraine’s new infantry recruits ‘freeze’ in face of Russian onslaught
Christopher Miller – Financial Times Sept 27, 2024
For six gruelling days this month a small team of experienced Ukrainian soldiers managed to withstand Russia’s relentless assault on their position on the eastern front.
All aged under 40 and with two years of fighting experience, the six men held their ground despite a barrage of rockets and killed over 100 Russian soldiers, said their commander in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
“When they rotated out, they were trembling. They hadn’t slept or rested,” their commander said near the frontline south-east of Pokrovsk, a city Russia is seeking to occupy. “But those guys did their job and held the line.”
The troops who replaced them were less successful. Of the eight soldiers rotated in, only two had combat experience. All six new conscripts — most over the age of 40 — were killed or wounded within a week, forcing the unit to retreat.
Outmanned and outgunned since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine’s troops have valiantly defended their territory from Russian bombardments, ground assaults and dirty tactics such as employing chemical weapons, which the US has said amount to war crimes.
Kyiv’s forces inflicted huge losses on the Russian army this year and proved they were still capable of seizing the initiative when they invaded Russia’s southern Kursk region.
Despite those achievements, Ukraine’s troops and their commanders are growing concerned over manpower problems, particularly the quality of new recruits and the speed at which they are injured or killed.
The Ukrainian infantry is most acutely affected: its troops are grappling with exhaustion and flagging morale, leading some to abandon their positions and allow Russia to capture more land, according to frontline commanders.
Along the front in Donetsk, four commanders, a deputy commander and nearly a dozen soldiers from four Ukrainian brigades told the Financial Times that the new conscripts lack basic combat skills, motivation and often flee their positions when they come under fire.
The commanders estimated that 50 to 70 per cent of new infantry troops were killed or wounded within days of starting their first rotation.
“When the new guys get to the position, a lot of them run away at the first shell explosion,” said a deputy commander in Ukraine’s 72nd mechanised brigade fighting near the eastern city of Vuhledar, a key bulwark that the Russians are attempting to flank.
This situation poses a significant challenge for Ukraine as it fights on the new front in Kursk while at the same time trying to fend off Moscow’s forces in its east. Kyiv is also pressing western partners for more assistance to help it turn the tide of the war.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy travelled to the US this week to try to get the Biden administration behind his “victory plan” and force Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table sooner rather than later. But to strike a deal with the Russian president that would not amount to capitulation by Kyiv, Zelenskyy needs greater western support, including unprecedented security guarantees, to help his struggling troops on the frontline.
“We are in desperate need of strong soldiers,” said a commander who goes by the nom de guerre “Lawyer” because he had worked as an attorney before the war.
Ukrainian conscripts in Kiev in July. Click to enlarge
Senior Ukrainian officials said a recent mobilisation drive had allowed Ukraine to draft about 30,000 soldiers a month since May, when a new conscription law came into force. That is on par with the number of troops Russia has been able to recruit by offering large bonuses and generous salaries.
But commanders on the ground and military analysts have warned that the newly drafted troops are not highly motivated, are psychologically and physically unprepared — and are being killed at an alarming rate as a result.
One commander, whose unit is defending positions around Kurakhove, where Russian forces have made gains in recent weeks, said that “some guys freeze [because] they are too afraid to shoot the enemy, and then they are the ones who leave in body bags or severely wounded”.
After difficult combat stints, many new conscripts go Awol, commanders said. Some return so shell-shocked and exhausted that they are checked into psychiatric wards.
Several bungled rotations in recent months have led to Russia making easier gains than expected towards Pokrovsk.
“We are most vulnerable during rotations,” said the deputy commander. “That’s when Russia is able to advance . . . The infantry is crucial to our defence.
Seasoned soldiers “are being killed off too quickly”, said another commander on the eastern front, only to be replaced by mostly older men without experience and in worse physical shape.
Age is a key concern — the average person in Ukraine’s military is 45. Of about 30 infantry troops in a unit, said the deputy commander of the 72nd brigade, on average half were in their mid-40s, only five were under 30 and the rest were 50 or older.
“As infantry, you need to run, you need to be strong, you need to carry heavy equipment,” he added. “It’s hard to do that if you aren’t young.”
But the problems start long before the recruits reach the battlefield, the commanders and analysts said.
A former Ukrainian officer who operates the analytical group Frontelligence Insight blamed “long-standing systemic problems that were left unaddressed for years”. Largely composed of mobilised former civilians, the Ukrainian army is led by officers and generals who started their career in Soviet times and had “never been in combat”, he said.
Commanders lay part of the blame on military recruiters: “It would be wise to pay more attention to each person’s characteristics and background to see where the guys best fit instead of sending everyone to the infantry,” said Mykhailo Temper, a battery commander in the 21st battalion of Ukraine’s Separate Presidential Brigade.
“You literally see all layers of society represented [in the infantry],” he added. “Not everyone is fit for the front.”
Temper, who is also the founder of a freeze-dried food company popular among outdoor adventurers and soldiers, said entrepreneurs like himself were often best equipped to serve in commander and officer roles, while some of his best trench fighters were former miners and factory workers.
Convicts released to serve in the army are also appreciated for their dedication and ability to adapt to the conflict zone, according to several commanders.
But every commander emphasised what they felt was inadequate military training for the new wave of draftees.
Temper said “trainers themselves don’t have real battle experience so they aren’t teaching what the newbies need to know to fight and, more importantly, to stay alive”.
Instead, conscripts were still receiving “Soviet-style” training, where “the army just passes everyone with good marks and sends them to the front”, said the deputy commander. New troops rarely practised with live rounds because of ammunition shortages, he added.
“Some of them don’t even know how to hold their rifles. They peel more potatoes than they shoot bullets,” he said, adding that he had bought paintball equipment to replace rifles and live rounds so that new recruits could get more practice without wasting precious ammunition.
Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky said this month that he had ordered improvements to the quality of training for new recruits by selecting “motivated instructors with combat experience” and raised the possibility of setting up an instructor school.
But the commander of an artillery unit said the deaths of tens of thousands of experienced soldiers over the course of the war were taking a toll: “If there are not enough people to fight, there are not enough people to teach.”
The commanders all said they tried to rotate troops every three to six days, depending on the intensity and dynamics of the fighting. But sometimes those stints can last for two weeks, especially when Russian drones spot the rotation and attack soldiers when they are at their most vulnerable.
Because Ukraine has no law on demobilisation, the soldiers are rarely allowed to leave the war zone to rest or visit family.
“Skif”, commander of a drone reconnaissance unit, first signed a contract when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. He said that signing up for the army or being conscripted “is a one-way ticket” to the war.
The deputy commander echoed this, saying that he and his troops have not been reconstituted since the full-scale invasion. “No rehabilitation time, no relief,” he said. “I see our guys when they leave the frontline . . . they are suffering burnout.”
dangers of drinking water flouridation
https://www.renegadetribune.com/victory-federal-judge-rules-water-fluoridation-poses-unreasonable-risk-to-children/
syria sends medics in to lebanon
2 volunteers from addenbrookes gone to help the wounded
please we must do more
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/09/28/734106/Syria-Lebanon-medical-aid-convoy-
Cleverly: No one should give more than half their earnings to the state
Story by Charles Hymas • 1h •
No taxpayer should have to hand over more than half their earnings to the state, James Cleverly has said.
This is politics speak for ” we will tax you to 50% ”
The shadow home secretary, who is one of the four final contenders for the Tory leadership, said the party had to restore its reputation for tax-cutting and deregulation.
dont make me laugh the Rothschild combine of Tory/Labour/Libdemthingeys
all support the government people trafficking programme, in operation since 1945 to fill the country with migrants
In an article for The Telegraph ahead of the Tory conference, he warned that Labour’s tax-raising plans would lead to people leaving the UK just as the French did when Francois Hollande, France’s Socialist president, introduced a 75 per cent income tax.
“Et voila London quickly became one of the largest French cities by population of French nationals. You can see the same mistakes being made by this Labour Government, which is now being told it won’t be able to tax the wealthy because they have already left,” said Mr Cleverly.
“Instead of putting people off we should be attracting them, with a low, fair, and simple tax rate. We should send the signal that Britain is open for work, not that you work for Britain. He made no mention that there are no jobs, the migrants got them all
“Ensuring that no one pays more than half of any pound that they earn to the government should be a common Conservative aspiration.
“But to get there we need to start winning the argument with the country again. As Conservative leader, that’s what I intend to do.”
First step would be to stop supporting the jews over Ukraine and Israel
Rothschild owns half the worlds wealth let him pay
Cleverly is just a racist bastard
The news that homosexuals are using the polystyrene bags used by women to boost their breast size, to make their balls much bigger.
This operation called Grotoxing is the latest craze
i wonder if the Rabbi recently exposed for cat rape
has thought of having this. ?
It may be something for carl jones to consider
And all for a jew pervert.
So victims forced by conscription to murder other people or be murdered themselves “freeze” instead of “killing the enemy”. It beggars belief that the human race can still stand upright.
I will say the FT has published some near the truth articles recently. Me thinks this is FT self preservation. You can only print bullshit for so long, and then what reputation you one had, has gone forever.
I think ‘freeze’ is misleading. From what I hear, the UKrainian Nazis are ‘running away’, or surrendering, which isn’t good. Much better to kill the Nazis.
All hangs on the US election. Pointless doing any analysis on Harris.
Let’s say Trump lives, and then wins on November 5th. We still have nearly 3 months before Trump can do any thing. He can’t make any deals with the Russians, that’s a huge no, no.
So the Russians will push on until they reach the Dnipro. Will they cross it to add to their bargaining chips?
Then we need to factor in what MI6 will do. They clearly want Trump gone, dead, and so does most of Nazi NATO. Trump’s election would be a massive disaster for the Nazis.
I think the rate of Nazi UKraine collapse is the main aspect that’s hard to gauge. You have UKrainian rams fighting with Nazi mercenaries. It’s like oil and water. Almost impossible to mix. This is what is slowing down Nazi desertions.
You run and you get shot, you stay and you’ll die.
The UKrainian death totals are based on rapidly expanding graveyards. They are hard to hide, and don’t forget all the rotting bodies lying out there. Again, hard to know, how many deserters were shot? How many seriously wounded, or even lightly wounded older rams were shot, because they were old, and wouldn’t return to the front lines?
My guesstimate, out of the 500/600k dead Nazis, around 25% were murdered by their own side. Why am I so confident this is the case? Simple, there aren’t enough wounded UKrainian Nazis. We never see Nazi hospitals, be they in Nazi UKraine, or in Nazi NATO. The NHS is treating Nazis, and some are UKrainian Nazis.
And dont forget that these Ukes are tough muthafclkers..
so how long d’ya think namby-pamby THICK Brits, DUMB F’Kin Yanks or Euro’Fcktard faggots would last ‘in the field’ ??
Answer: Not long….. NOT F’KIN LONG at ALL!!!
FOOD BANKS
My MP for this area Charlotte Cane has spoken out for the Trussel Trust’s
” Hunger in the UK report ” which indicated one person in four in the UK
has to use a food bank due to financial hardship.
The food bank in the area is desperate for more help as so many folk are going Hungry
What does Kier Starmer do ? same as the Tories, send money to Ukraine and Israel, while our own folk suffer, those who demonstrated over positive discrimination to migrants, e.g. putting our folk last, were given long prison sentences
Government racism like this will just make the people angry
An old chinese saying is ” beware the anger of the patient man ”
our patience is running out, feed OUR people starmer
Population reduction going according to plan.
My advice to Ukrainian conscripts is simple.
As soon as you’re outside of the view of your commanders, sabotage your weapons. If you drive a tank, make arrangements with your tank partners and as soon as you’re away and out of sight, torch the fucker and go surrender.
If you have to, feign illness. And if you’re really hardcore, accidently shoot yourself in the foot.
Only retards die for Jews. Live for yourself and your people,
No shortage of ukies,they are thriving.materially and demographically.laughing all the way to the piggy bank .and the prosperous river banks of Northwester europe.along their journey they discovered psychotropic herbs in the new lands.they stand in line for a gramme of poison ‘erbs.dispensed at the chartered apothecaries of 🍊.paid for by plastic cards topped up with their UBI,
The ukies are unchallenged in their clashes with hard proof base spirits ,they always win.they will take the spirit down at any cost.
shoot your fanatic ukraNAZIS if necessary in the
back + their jew politicians and join your slavic
russian brotherfolk ! the serbs are brothers with russia .
why not you ?
Kevin thrashbottom
its scrotox not grotox
Poofs in the london area are queuing up to have this done
No doubt Carl Jones has his already
philip schofield
Phillip Schofield claims ‘utter betrayal’ means no more presenting work
Story by Charlotte McLaughlin
Phillip Schofield says the “utter betrayal” by his television colleagues exposing his relations with teenage boys, has made him never want to be a daytime presenter again as he returned to TV.
The 62-year-old former This Morning presenter will be seen on screen in Channel 5’s Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, his first appearance on a TV series since he left ITV in May 2023 after he admitted to an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague.
he denied all the other accusations such as using rent boys for 30 years
The 62-year-old former This Morning presenter will be seen on screen in Channel 5’s Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, his first appearance on a TV series since he left ITV in May 2023 after he admitted to perverted acts with boys.
When he resigned more than a year ago, and said he was “so very, very sorry” for lying about the boys to the channel, his colleagues, wife and friends.
However, on the fourth day on the small island of Nosy Ankarea, off the coast of Madagascar, Schofield claims he was “chucked under a bus”, and added that he could do the same to others, in the TV world abusing boys On the second episode, he also says he had expected his affairs with young boys would stay secret, and he was the victim of anti semitism
Philip Schofield leave the little boys alone you pervert
(comments)–poofs wanting to LOOK like they have big bollocks: with them, everything is always deception, appearances, lies e.g. stealing