Zelensky poses for Vogue photoshoot
(citizenfreepress.com)
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Gotta love this when they're sending all the Ukrainian males to get slaughtered in the Eastern regions. This war has been an absolute lesson for anyone interested in how wartime propaganda looks and how it functions.
And how it means diddly squat when you're losing more territory by the day and losing 600 - 1,000 casualties daily.
After Lysychans'k, Russia has accomplished nothing, and appears to have completely stalled. There have been a number of reports that Russians have been forced to move troops away from the Donbass area in order to defend against Ukrainian advances around Kharkiv and Kherson. There is no more low hanging fruit for them to attack.
Russia have consistently lost more men and equipment than Ukraine. Russia has been forced to open its prisons to scrape the barrel for recruits. It's been forced into aggressive recruitment drives offering huge sums of money to get people to sign up, and still can't fill out its BTGs. It's a meme that Russian propaganda featured one of their boys died and the parents used his death payout to buy a little white Lada car because "it's what he would have wanted", the message being "send us your sons so they can die and you can get a car". By all accounts, Russia is suffering a significant manpower shortage, while Ukraine is not.
I get that the Putin lovers are going to seethe really, really hard now, and for the next few months. Your side lost. It has been known for months that Russia would eventually run out of enough men and equipment to sustain offensive operations. It looks like that time is already upon us, accelerated a little bit by HIMARS blowing up dozens of Russian ammo dumps.
To be fair, Ukraine did the same during the initial panic.
That's how even the ex-Tornado freak Mujahid (a Belarusian Slavic Nazi Islamist absolute psycho with these stupid huge earring things in addition to the cringe tats and IS flags, also he's a serial male rapist) was released from prison and was given or procured weapons, which he showed on his Telegram. I don't know what happened to him since then. I hope he's dead.
Also to be fair, the Russians also managed to precision score hits on high value, in particular at (beyond the) Kherson front. Ostrovsky just made a video about it (no longer with VICE News, good for him).
Also the West is STILL stalling on advanced weapons and munitions, which is pain.
And in general, https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1551667340995092481