{"id":273282,"date":"2023-09-14T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273282"},"modified":"2023-09-15T07:06:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T07:06:27","slug":"72000-ukrainian-casualties-in-110-billion-meat-grinder-un-the-world-cannot-afford-for-this-senseless-war-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273282","title":{"rendered":"72,000 Ukrainian Casualties in $110 Billion Meat Grinder \u2013 UN: \u201cThe World Cannot Afford for this Senseless War to Continue\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Richard Abelson \u2013 The Gateway Pundit Sept 13, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>US funds for Ukraine stand at $110.97 billion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-confirms-more-than-100b-in-taxpayer-resources-spent-on-ukraine\">Fox News reported on Tuesday<\/a>, citing a document by the Office of Management and Budget of the White House. The UN Disarmament head called on the world to \u00a0\u201cmake every effort for peace.\u201d US Chief of Staff Mark Milley believes Ukraine may only have \u201c30 days of fighting weather left\u201d this year.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the week of Sept. 2-9, Ukraine lost 5,955 casualties in its slow-moving counter-offensive, the Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mod_russia_en\/9669\">Ministry of Defense<\/a> claimed. On Sept. 5, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/09\/russian-defense-minister-66000-ukrainian-casualties-lost-meat\/\">Ukraine had lost 66,000 men<\/a> since the start of its counter-offensive June 4, which was supposed to break through to Crimea and the Black Sea before the end of fighting season, when fall rains set in. Ukraine has only made minor gains despite heavy losses of men and materiel.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian estimates would put total Ukrainian casualties in the counter-offensive at 72,000. Observers including <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1656469\">Col. Douglas MacGregor<\/a> and presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/upholdreality\/status\/1665440467796865027?lang=en\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>\u00a0 had claimed Ukraine had lost approx. 350,000 men before the start of the offensive. That would put total Ukrainian casualties at 422,000 since the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukraine Ministry of Defense claims that Russia has lost 270,350 men since the start of the invasion Feb. 24. Other sources put the number of Russian casualties at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/russia-50000-casualties-ukraine\/31947401.html\">50,000<\/a>. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed an 8 to 1 casualty rate in Russia\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;The most important thing, number one, is you gotta get rid of doubt.&quot;<br \/>Nipsey Hussle<\/p>\n<p>Total combat losses of the enemy from February 24, 2022 to September 13, 2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jyynhut35h\">pic.twitter.com\/Jyynhut35h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefenceU\/status\/1701875865741570367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world cannot afford for this senseless war to continue,\u201d said UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, appealing to all Member States to \u201cmake every effort for peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/press.un.org\/en\/2023\/sc15406.doc.htm\">UN Security Council<\/a> Sept. 12, British-Hungarian Journalist George Szamuely testified that \u201cwar could have easily been avoided\u201d if NATO and the USA had been willing to negotiate with Russia. \u201cAt the heart of Russia\u2019s proposals was a commitment by NATO to no further expansion, and in particular to no NATO membership for Ukraine,\u201d Szamuely said. \u201cThere was nothing at all unreasonable about these demands, nothing there that could not have been addressed with a little deft diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UK representative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/uk-intelligence-reveals-russian-attacks-on-civilian-cargo-ship-and-humanitarian-aid-workers-uk-statement-at-the-security-council\">Dame Barbara Woodward<\/a> accused Moscow of misusing the Security Council to obfuscate its responsibility for atrocities in Ukraine, pin blame on the West and hide its own failures.\u00a0 \u201cLet us call this meeting out for the farce that it is,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>While pro-NATO western media report Ukrainian advances in the south, the interactive maps released by the NATO-aligned <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/a411ae7ce1264de0a694a77ea011e72b\">Institute for the Study of War<\/a> show the front lines nearly unchanged since June.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Southern <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukraine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian forces advanced in western Zaporizhia Oblast. Geolocated footage posted on September 12 indicates that Ukrainian forces advanced eastward along a trench line in the fields west of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Verbove?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Verbove<\/a> in western <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Zaporizhia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Zaporizhia<\/a> Oblast. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tf8OHZNZnW\">https:\/\/t.co\/Tf8OHZNZnW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bpmweHIIpJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/bpmweHIIpJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uMrgcaUQbQ\">pic.twitter.com\/uMrgcaUQbQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ISW (@TheStudyofWar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheStudyofWar\/status\/1701770556620632531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Kiev regime has sustained such losses in its counteroffensive attempt that \u201cnever should have taken place,\u201d that \u201cit could be about 30 days before the Ukrainian army would be completely out of ammunition and manpower,\u201d retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Earl Rasmussen told Russian government-controlled <a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20230912\/as-ammo-dries-up-us-set-to-shift-blame-for-ukraine-counteroffensive-debacle--1113298286.html\">Sputnik News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the looming change in the weather, it \u201cwill be so bad (the Ukrainian army) won\u2019t be able to move forward, and will become even more of a target for Russian artillery and defensive actions,\u201d Rasmussen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re out of ammunition, the West is out of ammunition\u2026 They can\u2019t get supplies quickly enough. Not only does the weather play in the \u201830 days\u2019, but they\u2019ve got a lot of other conditions there, too,\u201d Rasmussen said. \u201cI can\u2019t see the Ukrainians doing much right now. There\u2019s no way that they can, even if they wanted to\u2026 even before the weather. I always said that this offensive was a suicide mission, and with the weather coming in, it would definitely be a suicide mission to try to advance at all,\u201d Rasmussen told Sputnik News.<\/p>\n<p>Even US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley had to admit Ukraine may not be conquering the Russian-speaking territories in Ukraine anytime soon. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-66763868\">Speaking to BBC <\/a>with UK Chief of Defense Staff Sir Tony Radakin on Sunday , Milley estimated \u201cThere\u2019s still a reasonable amount of time, probably about 30 to 45 days\u2019 worth of fighting weather left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milley conceded that the Ukrainians \u201chaven\u2019t achieved \u2013 they haven\u2019t finished the fighting part of what they\u2019re trying to accomplish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ukrainians aren\u2019t done, this battle\u2019s not done\u201d, Milley said. \u201cWe\u2019ll get the cold as you mentioned. It\u2019ll start, uh, the rains will come in, it will become very muddy and it\u2019s be very difficult to maneuver at that point, and then you\u2019ll get to deep winter, and then at that point we\u2019ll see where things go. But right now, it is way too early to say that this offensive is failed or not failed,\u201d Milley said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/09\/72000-ukrainian-casualties-110-billion-meat-grinder-un\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With winter looming and ammunition running low the Ukrainian \u2018counteroffensive\u2019 has achieved little but incur massive casualties. In little more than 3 months Ukraine has lost more men than the U.S. did in the entire Vietnam War. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":271429,"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-273282","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\/273282","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\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273284,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273282\/revisions\/273284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}