Mike Johnson telling Zelenskyy holding up aid is nothing personal is bullshit when Ukrainian solders are dying like this

"The entire river crossing is under constant fire. I’ve seen boats with my comrades on board just disappear into the water after being hit, lost forever to the Dnipro river.

"We must carry everything with us - generators, fuel and food. When you’re setting up a bridgehead you need a lot of everything, but supplies weren’t planned for this area.

"We thought after we made it there the enemy would flee and then we could calmly transport everything we needed, but it didn’t turn out that way.

“When we arrived on the [eastern] bank, the enemy were waiting. Russians we managed to capture said their forces were tipped off about our landing so when we got there, they knew exactly where to find us. They threw everything at us - artillery, mortars and flame thrower systems. I thought I’d never get out.”

"Every day we sat in the forest taking incoming fire. We were trapped - the roads and paths are all riddled with mines. The Russians cannot control everything, and we use it. But their drones are constantly buzzing in the air, ready to strike as soon as they see movement.

"Supplies were the weakest link. The Russians monitored our supply lines, so it became more difficult - there was a real lack of drinking water, despite our deliveries by boat and drone.

"We paid for a lot of our own kit - buying generators, power banks and warm clothes ourselves. Now the frosts are coming, things will only get worse - the real situation is being hushed up, so no-one will change anything.

“No-one knows the goals. Many believe that the command simply abandoned us. The guys believe that our presence had more political than military significance. But we just did our job and didn’t get into strategy.”

"Mostly our losses were mistakes - someone didn’t climb in that trench quickly enough; another guy hid badly. If someone isn’t switched on, he’ll be immediately targeted from everywhere.

"But thanks to our doctors, if we can get an injured soldier to the medics - he’ll be saved. They’re titans, Gods. But we can’t get the remains of the fallen out. It’s just too dangerous.

“At the same time our drones and missiles inflict a lot of losses on the enemy. We took prisoners of war once, but where to put them, if we have no way to cross the river even with our own injured comrades?”

"Several brigades were supposed to be posted here, not individual companies - we just don’t have enough men.

"There are a lot of young guys among us. We need people, but trained people, not the green ones we have there now. There are guys who had spent just three weeks in training, and only managed to shoot a few times.

"It’s a total nightmare. A year ago, I wouldn’t have said that, but now, sorry, I’m fed up.

“Everyone who wanted to volunteer for war came a long time ago - it’s too hard now to tempt people with money. Now we’re getting those who didn’t manage to escape the draft. You’ll laugh at this, but some of our marines can’t even swim.”

"I got out after getting concussed from a mine, but one of my colleagues didn’t make it - all that was left of him was his helmet.

"I feel like I escaped from hell, but the guys who replaced us last time got into even more hell than us.

“But the next rotation is due. My time to cross the river again is soon.”

War is hell

This is really fucking simple: Ukrainian interests and Western/allied interests overlap 100% in the context of this war. We provide money, hardware, training, and intel, Ukraine provides manpower, we kill blyats and destroy a threat to our world order. So what the fuck is the problem??? Maybe we should dispatch the fucking cunts among us whose alliances are to Moscow.

Brutal. God damn

Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical strategist, says Ukrainians need to kill 10 Russians for every Ukrainian. And that the only realistic way of doing that is causing famine in the Donbass and Crimea. That’s the harsh reality.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Outnumbered and outgunned, one front-line soldier has given a sobering account of Ukraine’s struggle to cling on to its foothold on the east bank of the vast Dnipro river.

Under relentless Russian fire, the soldier spent several weeks on the Russian-occupied side of the river as Ukraine sought to establish a bridgehead around the village of Krynky.

His account, sent via a messaging app, speaks of troop boats blown out of the water, inexperienced reinforcements and a feeling of abandonment by Ukraine’s military commanders.

Ukraine’s General Staff reported in its daily update on Sunday that its forces were maintaining their positions on the eastern bank of the Dnipro, and were inflicting “fire damage on the enemy’s rear”.

Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Gen Valery Zaluzhny told the Economist magazine in November that, “just like the First World War we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate.”

Ukraine’s military meanwhile says it wants to target Russian supply lines and force them back enough from the river to protect civilians from shelling.

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