{"id":294039,"date":"2024-09-01T07:27:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T07:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294039"},"modified":"2024-09-03T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T06:22:27","slug":"ukrainian-military-blames-zelensky-for-battlefield-setbacks-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294039","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian military blames Zelensky for battlefield setbacks \u2013 FT"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT.com \u2013 Aug 31, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky has reportedly come under a \u201cbarrage of criticism\u201d<\/em> from his own soldiers, lawmakers and military analysts after Russian forces managed to make rapid advances in Donbass and push back Kiev\u2019s troops, the Financial Times claimed on Friday.<\/p>\n

According to the UK outlet, due to Kiev\u2019s incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk Region earlier this month, which involved the redeployment of thousands of Ukraine\u2019s most battle-hardened troops, many of its forces fighting in the Russian Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DPR) have ended up being stretched thin and have been struggling to hold their ground.<\/p>\n

This week, Ukraine\u2019s front line in the region was breached by Russian forces who have been closing in on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk in the west of the DPR, which represents one of the key rail and road junctions in the region. Frontelligence Insight, a Ukrainian analytical group cited by the FT, say the loss of the city would be a serious blow to the Ukrainian military\u2019s logistics.<\/p>\n

The current situation on the edge of Pokrovsk has been described as a \u201ccomplete defensive failure\u201d<\/em> for the Ukrainian military, according to Alexander Kovalenko, a military analyst at the Kiev-based Information Resistance group.<\/p>\n

Other military experts, including those within the Deep State group, which is said to have ties to Ukraine\u2019s defense ministry, have described the situation on the front line as \u201ccomplete chaos,\u201d<\/em> stating that Russian forces have been advancing more rapidly in the region since Kiev launched its incursion on August 6 than in the months before.<\/p>\n

Kiev\u2019s troops have also been sharing their frustration with Zelensky and his commanders, with one serviceman being quoted by the FT as saying that he has \u201cnever seen anything like this\u201d<\/em> and that \u201ceverything is falling apart so quickly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Zhenya, who serves within Ukraine\u2019s 93rd Mechanized Brigade and fought in the 10-month-long battle for Artemovsk last year, reportedly warned that \u201cPokrovsk will fall much faster than Bakhmut did,\u201d<\/em> according to the British outlet.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Zelensky himself has described the situation on the front line near Pokrovsk as \u201cextremely difficult.\u201d<\/em> His top commander, Aleksandr Syrsky, has also admitted that Kiev\u2019s gambit in Kursk had failed to force Russia to divert its troops from Pokrovsk, as Moscow refused to take the bait.<\/p>\n

According to the latest figures from the Russian Defense Ministry, Kiev\u2019s incursion has cost Ukraine more than 7,800 service members, 75 tanks, and more than 500 armored vehicles.<\/p>\n

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This isn’t getting reported by the western media but according to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Kursk incursion has cost Ukraine nearly 8,000 men, 75 tanks, and more than 500 armored vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"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-294039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294039","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=294039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294055,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294039\/revisions\/294055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}