Last week a now-deleted YouTube was republished to the “UkraineRussiaReport” thread on Reddit, which depicts a video from the Kyiv Star commemorating and honoring their fallen soldiers, implying that around 400,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed in action (KIA), while still trying to fundraise more resources to resist Russia.
The comment section was divided on these numbers, some openly pro-Ukraine supporters wanting to see more proof of this, while others who are neutral and pro-Russia surmise this is most likely in line with the truth; one user noting that Ukraine has already had hefty waves of conscription, implying that this number is not too farfetched.
In April The Washington Post reported how Ukraine begun a new wave of conscription, basically trying to scrounge up anyone that they could. The WaPo wrote in their piece:
The men in uniform could show up almost anywhere, any time.
They knock on civilians’ front doors and randomly stop them on street corners, handing out draft papers that can turn lives upside down.
Ukraine needs more soldiers — and fast. Kyiv is preparing for an imminent assault on Russian occupying forces, and while Ukraine does not disclose its casualty counts, commanders in the field have described large losses. In February, a German official said Berlin believed at least 120,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed or wounded since the start of the invasion.
The paper wrote, in the context of the touted Spring counteroffensive that ultimately failed
RT notes that Ukraine is becoming desperate for bodies and is now conscripted HIV positive patients to fight, hepatitis, clinically-treated tuberculosis, along with various blood diseases. Furthermore, the conscription of people with “mild short-term manifestations of mental disorders,” as well as “slowly progressing diseases of the central nervous system,” has been ordered.
The Financial Times also recently noted that a growing number of Ukrainians are paying up to $10,000 to avoid being drafted, to purchase medical exemption papers or to simply bribe officials.
But as to again confirm such a high KIA rate, an interview conducted by Vice that interviewed an Ukrainian prisoner of war said that his government is just sending him and his kinsmen off to get slaughtered.
Some officials have said for some time now that Ukraine had sustained heavy and unsustainable losses. Retired Colonel Douglas MacGregor, who has been a lengthy media tour as of late on alternative and independent networks, including his recent interview with Tucker Carlsen – MacGregor had said as far back as February that Ukraine had lost approximately 400,000 soldiers already, The EurAsian Times noted.
More recently mainstream media is now finally starting to disclose a number of causalities in Ukraine, though is still lower than the 400K on Ukraine’s side alone.
The New York Times reported in mid-August: “The number includes as many as 120,000 deaths and 170,000 to 180,000 injured troops. The Russian numbers dwarf the Ukrainian figures, which the officials put at close to 70,000 killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded.”
To put that into perspective, the U.S. lost around 58,000 soldiers in Vietnam.
19fortyfive.com also conceded the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, writing:
However, Zelensky chose to press the fight anyway. For months, senior U.S. leaders warned the Ukrainian president the battle was unwinnable and to move to other defensive positions. Not only did he refuse to withdraw to a superior fighting position, he ordered his men not to give up so much as a single building, forcing them to fight to the death. Month after month, Zelensky sent brigade after brigade to reinforce Bakhmut in an effort to reverse the tide.
Not only was it painfully obvious that military fundamentals made clear there was little rational hope of stopping Wagner’s drive to capture Bakhmut, but many of those brigades Zelensky sent in futile aid to help Bakhmut were also urgently needed in the upcoming spring and summer offensive. Two days after Bakhmut’s fall, Zelensky was still defiant, claiming the city had not fallen. In 2022, Zelensky’s tenacity and unwillingness to compromise resulted in blunting Russia’s invasion and then inflicting two major operational defeats.
Yesterday RT reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin once again reaffirmed that the counteroffensive was a failure. It “is not stalled; it is a failure,” he stated.
Moreover, ‘Kiev’s forces have lost more than 66,000 troops and over 7,600 heavy weapons since launching their push in early June, the Russian official estimated on Tuesday,’ RT noted in a separate article. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu also stated:
Ukrainian militants are attacking civilian objects and tout those terrorist attacks as military victories.
He said, claiming this is being down to obfuscate Ukraine’s failure
In July U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller had a massive Freudian Slip, as many called it, where twice affirmed that “the war has been a strategic failure for Ukraine.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The Ukrainians have and are being butchered. While I have no way of confirming those numbers, it is abundantly evident that Ukraine is well-defeated and should surrender. Of course they cannot, because the United States and NATO forces rule Ukraine’s corrupt, Neo-Nazi regime. The military industrial complex needs this thing to keep going as long as they can to keep making their dividends.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:10
Therefore, as defeat is pretty much imminent, beware of a false flag to advance further U.S. and NATO involvement in this.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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400k is a depop success to these devils. I expect a coup against Zelensky.
Exactly. Just like Nazi Germany someone is going to try and stop him before it gets too much worse, or he just flies off to his private beach huts. The man and his cronies have private mansions already purchased in the United States and Europe if it completely falls apart.