In a Saturday night speech Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave his most dire assessment to date of the status of Ukraine forces in the eastern Donbas region, where for over at least the last two months Russia has concentrated its forces, following the Feb.24 invasion of the country. Saturday marked the 95th day of the conflict.
He described conditions there as “indescribably difficult” in what marks a notably pessimistic shift and negative tone for the Ukrainian leader, strongly suggesting the fall of Donbas – or at least whole regions such as Luhansk – could be imminent. He identified several intense ongoing battles in places with a large Russian force presence, including Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Bakhmut and Popasna. Sievierodonets in particular is scene of fierce up-close street battles.
“But our defense holds on,” Zelensky sought to assure the public. “It’s indescribably difficult there. And I am grateful to all those who withstand this onslaught of the occupiers.”
As the AP describes of some instances of “close-quarter combat”:
Ukrainian regional officials reported that Russian forces were “storming” Sievierodonetsk after trying unsuccessfully to encircle the city. The fighting knocked out power and cellphone service, and a humanitarian relief center could not operate because of the danger, the mayor said.
Zelensky in the address also denounced what he called “absolutely senseless, openly barbaric strikes at the Sumy region,” which left at least one person dead and seven wounded and two in critical condition, saying further mortars struck close to a kindergarten.
“These are the enemies chosen by the Russian Federation,” he added. With this, he again called on the West and world leaders to official label Russia as a “terrorist state” – something US has thus far resisted doing, even after Biden previously described Russia’s actions as “genocide”.
“This is fair and reflects the daily reality that the occupiers have created in Ukraine and are eager to bring further to Europe. And this must be legally enshrined,” he said.
The Biden administration has meanwhile signaled the US is getting ready to ship long-range rocket systems to Ukrainian forces, a major first marking a significant escalation. But given what appears to be Russia’s steady progress over Donbas, it’s likely too-little too-late to turn the tide for the Ukrainians in the East.
Americans have been fed a steady diet of propaganda about Ukraine "winning." In fact, Russia has taken Lyman (a key logistics hub) and has encircled the Ukrainian army in Sievierodonetsk. I'm not pro-Russian. I am pro-American, and pro-sticking to facts.https://t.co/e75MwpYXdD
— Jim Rickards (@JamesGRickards) May 27, 2022
Just prior to these latest remarks, on Friday night, the Ukrainian leader vowed he would resist any territorial concessions for the sake of a negotiated peace – as a small handful of Western officials have called for – instead saying that Donbas will be “Ukrainian again”.
“We are protecting our land in the way that our current defense resources allow,” he had said according to a presidential office transcript. “We are doing everything to increase them. And we will increase them.” However, all of this appears to be preparing the public and his Western backers to brace for bad news in the days and weeks ahead. As we noted Friday, even The Washington Post has changed its narrative, suggesting for the first time that things are looking worse for Ukraine’s military than previously thought.
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Brandon is going to provide 40 Billion dollars in military aid to Russia the same way he did to the Taliban.
At least they would use it properly. To rid the world of Fascists.
You misspelled ‘zionists.’
As Charlie Sheen famously said, “winning.”
It has been clear from the outset of this disaster that NATO and the thugs at state dept have been pushing for this war and will not allow any cessation of hostilities; meanwhile, the ukraine troop cannon fodder, cities, and countryside is subject to carnage and blood bath and at the end of the day, the question is who benefits from this utter disaster.
Well, Russia does, as she rightfully should. So do the surviving Ukies who become Russian citizens.
The biggest benefactor is our own MIC …
The Military Industrial Complex is behind this, along with Soros.
Biden’s cabinet is 3/4 jewish, zelensky and government are almost entirely jewish, the ‘american’ media – cheering the war on – is jewish.
But tell me more about the MIC.
He described conditions there as “indescribably difficult”…Next to prancing in stiletto’s and beat’n my meat on the ivory’s…Oy Vey!!!
Now that the failed comedian has admitted Ukraine is getting it’s azz kicked by Russia – I wonder if the fake American media will follow suit, or continue with the “the Russian army is suffering catastrophic losses and is on the run” propaganda?
What an embarrassment. We funneled $54 billion in US weapons over to the Ukes and they’re still getting whooped. That’s about the same amount that Russia spends annually on all their military operations. This just throws more fuel on inflationary pressures at home that’s destroying the purchasing power of the average American. The ones calling the shots in the Pentagon must either be dumber than snot, or working for the anti-American globalists like Soros.
Those weapons were headed for the black market anyway. The lying gov just spun its usual crap and grift to the American zombies in getting them to believe we were sending aid and “needed weapons”. The whole gov cabal are anti American globalists.
Another war the American aligned nations have lost!
it is over except for dividing up what’s left
Mr. Zelenski is finally seeing the truth. Good for him. As believers in Jesus Christ, who forgives all who ask, so should we also forgive Mr. Z.
He was just an actor, a comedian. Then some billionaire Ukie oligarch tempted Mr. Z with great power and lots of money to lead Ukraine. The temptation was too much for Mr. Z, and he succumbed. Before you condemn him put yourself in his shoes …. could YOU overcome so great a temptation? I doubt it. Once installed, only then did he realize he was just a puppet. But, it was too late, and he was forced to go with the flow. Can’t blame the man for that. Right now he’s just trying to save his country and, quite frankly, he is doing a Churchilian job of it. But again, too little, too late.
Pray with me that he escapes and has a safe journey to his mansion in Florida. Remember what the Lord said, “Do not kick a man when he is down.”
He didn’t know what he was getting into? Churchilian? Surely you jest.
Agreed. Pretty hard to interpret The King James Bible
In Samuel 15:3, does Amalek translate as mr. zelenski, or billionaire ukulele oligarch?
“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”
I have said I thought Zekenski was likely just “a deer in the headlights ” in the larger scheme of things myself , which is basically “simplecarpenter speak “for the same thing Stucky . I could see it , State Dept promising how wonderful things were going to be for not only him but Ukraine as well of he worked with them , you know , the whole facade surface image of what these people want you to think they are when I reality they are harbingers of death and destruction and things only worse ,more corrupt and chaotic as things always do wherever this wrecking crew lays down stakes , what’s a poor shallow little actor to do ?
So (for the benefit of the legion of Russophiles here, or is it just Russians?) …
Let me get this straight, Russia is ‘winning’ because they now ‘almost’ fully control Donbass, a region they were in almost total control of before they decided to invade the rest of Ukraine, right?
I feel really sorry for you guys (Oh OK, I don’t, it’s pity), struggling to find anything to brag about your second class (and failing fast) motherland. you’re like women bragging about how good her special needs kid is at popsicle stick art – pitiful.
Russia didn’t first invade Donbass and then “the rest of Ukraine”. Russia’s special military operation “invaded” all of Country 404 simultaneously.
Did you forget the /s ??
Because it was the Ukienazis who controlled Donbass … for 8 fucking years …. with anywhere from 50k – 100k troops …. their BEST most well trained and well equipped troops …. with millions upon millions of dollars of light and heavy weapons ….. and who murdered around 16,000 of their own citizens.
Russia controlled that before the war???? hahahahaha
Lemme aks you …. does “Jerven” mean dumb-mutherfucken-son-of-a-whore in the alternate reality world you live in?
We didn’t ‘invade invade – it’s not a real invasion unless we admit it is’(an area in which most of the population had been murdered, and the rest sent to Siberia, then replaced them with ‘good Russians’ so that we could control it and which aligned itself with mother Russia) with (thousands of troops ‘disguised’ with fake Ukrainian mustaches) it was “Russia’s special military operation”
hahaha
I rest my case! Pitiful!
(Don’t worry about my name, it’s something some Norwegians and Swedes decided to call me after working with me, the Eighth Directorate and FSO knows me as something different, having had a number of ‘disagreements’ with them over the years, and I’m still here ha.
Your name has become … a laughingstock even here though. You’re the sites resident village idiot).
That is a good thing. Donbas is where ethnic Russians are being tormented by the Neo Nazi’s of the Ukraine. Good bye swinehundts…..