I know hopium springs eternal in the Ukrosimp HRT poisoned fatty heart, but there have been a couple of articles in the MSM that paint a grim picture of how very desperate, chaotic and terrible things are for the Ukraine.
The New Yorker: "Two Weeks At the Front" paints a very dire picture of what happened at Bahkmut, not the usual rosy "Glory to the Heroes!" dreck that gets pushed into iCrap notifications.
I remember how thrilled the redditors here were about the M113, in the way only a POG could be, and how they jeered when we warned that in Ukraine it was basically an aluminum coffin on wheels. Judging by the several burned and destroyed M113 vehicles the RUAF and Wagner posted, we were right. Here's how the article describes being in one:
There's a lot more so if you want to know what it was like for the AFU, here is the archive (no clicks)
https://archive.is/jFRms
The WSJ also has a grim piece: "36 Hours in Bakhmut". In Kharkov, conscripted, "trained" and thrown into the meatgrinder within the month.
Is it any surprise there are reports of this?
But General Mark "Gay is the Way" Milley reassures us the AFU did a terrific job defending Bakhmut.
Today the destruction of the dam of the Karlovsky reservoir west of Pervomaisky as a result of a missile strike by the Russian Armed Forces was reported. Blowing the dam denies the use of the supply route along the E-50 to the AFU grouping in the Donetsk direction.
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Air strike alert all over Ukraine
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and something really explosive got blown up in Dnepropetrovsk
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