{"id":261946,"date":"2022-12-03T07:40:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T07:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=261946"},"modified":"2022-12-05T08:32:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T08:32:47","slug":"newsbits-on-ukraine-swamp-trenches-short-training-out-of-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=261946","title":{"rendered":"Newsbits On Ukraine – Swamp Trenches, Short Training, Out Of Ammo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama \u2013 Dec 2, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Realistic reports from the Ukrainian frontline are rare. Yesterday the British Express<\/em> had this<\/a> (@7:30, also here<\/a>) from Bakhmut \/ Artemovsk in its Live coverage. One wonders how it has bypassed the censor:<\/p>\n

Inside Bakhmut frontline ‘littered with corpses’ and ‘colossal’ losses<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Ukrainian commander of the Svoboda battalion, Petro Kuzyk, whose unit is one of those holding Bakhmut said his soldiers are staying in trenches full of corpses, fighting in extremely cold conditions and in knee-deep water against Russia’s attacks.
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\n“I apologise for speaking slowly now, because I’m very cold \u2013 it’s making me dizzy. I’ve now left the first line (since I was called). I’m warming up in the car, I’m almost falling asleep, because I haven’t slept all this time. They charged yesterday, quite seriously. They felt a weakness in our defence, because (I will not name the numbers of the units, so as not to spoil their honour) there are units that are less motivated than ours. And yesterday they weakened our defence a little in the area just around the Bakhmut. Some units could not withstand this artillery onslaught and retreated.<\/p>\n

“This is our principle: we, the Svoboda Battalion, do not retreat. And because of that, we found ourselves in a semi-surrounded situation, and we had a lot of work to do. In addition, it is a swamp full of mud. It is very difficult to evacuate the wounded or to deliver ammunition. The trenches are constantly deteriorating, and in this swamp they must be constantly rebuilt.”<\/p>\n

He added: “Today is the first day without rain, but then and yesterday when it fell, all the water flowed into the trenches. And the shelling was such that it was impossible to get out of the trench, so the guys were constantly wet for a day or two. Plus the temperature is like this. Many are contused, many with pneumonia. But we hold our ground, and we defend. I see young guys standing with their teeth clenched. I would really like someone to write about their achievements, because few people in the country know about it.”<\/p>\n

The above reads like a report from Verdun.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

More from that Express<\/em> Live coverage (@8:31):<\/p>\n

Cont. reading: Newsbits On Ukraine – Swamp Trenches, Short Training, Out Of Ammo<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For once a realistic report about the situation in Ukraine manages to slip past the corporate media censors. It features in the UK Daily Express and it almost sounds like something from WWI, with the Ukrainians in dire straits <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":261948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261947,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261946\/revisions\/261947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}