Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,
Ukrainian soldiers detailed in comments to The Washington Post the steep toll that Ukraine was facing in its southern Kherson counteroffensive, an operation that the US reportedly helped Ukraine prepare.
Since launching the offensive at the end of August, Ukrainian officials haven’t offered much detail about the operation, and reporters are not allowed on the frontlines. But the Ukrainian soldiers, who spoke with the Post in a hospital, painted a grim picture of what the battle has been like for the Ukrainian side.
The Ukrainian soldiers said that they lacked the artillery needed to oust Russia’s forces from their positions. The soldiers said that they had to carefully ration their munitions, and when they did fire their weapons, they had trouble hitting their targets.
One platoon commander told the Post that Ukrainian forces “lost five people for every one they did.”
Ukraine has claimed some success in the offensive, but the claims cannot be verified. The soldiers interviewed by the Post that they were able to capture some villages that were previously controlled by Russia, but it’s not clear if Ukraine is capable of holding on to those positions.
According to one section of the WaPo report:
Oleksandr said the Russian artillery fire was relentless. “They were just hitting us all the time,” he said. “If we fire three mortars, they fire 20 in return.”
The Ukrainian soldiers said they had to carefully ration their use of munitions but even when they did fire, they had trouble hitting targets. “When you give the coordinates, it’s supposed to be accurate, but it’s not,” he said, noting that his equipment dated back to 1989.
Oleksandr had never traveled to Kherson before the war, but he said the goal of expelling Russian invaders was worth sacrificing a limb. “It’s our country,” he said.
However, the report acknowledged that a “clear picture of Ukraine’s losses could not be independently assessed.”
This week, Ukraine launched another counteroffensive in eastern Ukraine in the Kharkiv region. According to the military analysis website Southfront, Ukraine has had some success in its attack on Russian positions near Kharkiv.
A report published by Southfront on Thursday said that the Kharkiv offensive has “been one of the major successes of the Ukrainian military on the front lines since the beginning of the Russian military operations in February.”
Russian media reported that fighting continued on Thursday night in the Kharkiv region and that Ukrainian shelling had intensified in the region in recent days.
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The combat in Ukraine is only a small part of this currency war that the western world is losing. This is a banker war and it ends with the nuclear option of destroying fiat currency. The $ is going to fall before this war is over. Russia and China are going to watch the western world self destruct at a faster pace going forward. Russia will gladly let it’s enemies destroy themselves. China will continue to watch and transfer as much wealth to themselves as possible while taking no responsibility for the economic collapse. There will be a new currency backed by commodities such as gold and oil etc. The fake money the western world runs on will soon be destroyed. Value added production is the only way a nation creates wealth, printing money destroys wealth but can be used to transfer wealth from the masses to the few. I intend to be one of the few, not that I want to be surrounded by poverty, but I sure as hell don’t want to go down with the ship.
Not sure this Currency War you portray is going to help the Western Central Banking System.
I think they were caught off guard, badly, terminally.
Putin hit their Bio Labs 1st, ruined their next Plandemic, supposed to be going now.
Putin trased their economies with Gas War.
Putin shived their Fiat in the stomach, slow death.
All points I’m sure you agree with, so labeling this as a Bankers War is just a bit off, more like War on the Bankers, which is a new development. And needs new terminology.
Banker Wars have been the defacto norm for over a century now, time for new phraseology.
I’m open to suggestions…
” not sure this will help western central bankers” what the fuck gave you the idea I said it would? The western bankers started this war in an attempt to isolate Russia. TOTAL FAILURE. WTF did you even read my comment.
Victoria Nuland didn’t start this shit just to kill people. All was are banker wars.
I guess we could call it an imperial war against any country that stops using the $. Still a banker war though, all about the money.
The Ukrainians aren’t winning ground as much as they’re having it handed to them. Zelensky hasn’t read Sun Tzu.
The US is still using Gen Melvin Zais’ Korean Pork Chop Hill Doctrine only the Ukrainians are buying it now and becoming the latest battlefield Pork Chops; Russia is glad to oblige the American ZOG and Ukrainian Nazis.
Part of the Cloward and Piven crap going on to destroy our system and help usher in the reset. The U.S. vows to fight until the last Ukraine soldier dies or the dollar dies whichever comes first.
Major success?? hahahahahahahaha … you stupid fucking bastard child of a whore chimp.
The Ukie Nazi forces there currently number about 30,000. By this time next week that number will be about 15,000. Nice victory, asshole!
In this 17 minute video, Brian Berletic (the New Atlas) gives some perspective on this Ukraine offensive in Kharkov region compared to the prior one. Near the end he also reminds people of Putin’s patience in dealing with Erdogan after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane in NW Syria. Fast forward and Turkey and Russia are all but allies, with Turkey welcoming Russian tourists, accepting Russia’s Mircard credit cards and agreeing to transact energy purchases in rubles. Putin is a greater strategic thinker than the West will admit.
This has nothing to do with your post, but there are some wild asses over there.
It’s no surprise that the lame stream media is trying to paint this the opposite way.
But, but, but, the media says Ukraine has achieved a great victory this week. Next they will be marching into Crimea to kick the Russians out and then it is onto Moscow!
Let’s all hoist those Ukraine flags because US citizens always like to be on the side of the winner.
The Nazis are invading Jello. They will never get out alive. Artillery is what kills most troops in war and now Russia not having to do anything but retreat a ways will masacre the Nazis. Who the hell would send troops into such a trap? Something stinks. A plan to get sympathy and more arms and funding (to scrape off of course)?