"Ukraine’s War Effort Is Stuck. This Heroic Battlefield Failure Shows Why.
Rout of elite Ukraine forces in counteroffensive is a lesson in why the war effort is stalled
By the time Ukraine’s elite forces were deployed, last year’s fightback was already doomed to fail."
Wall Street Journal article explaining patiently why cuckraine has lost.
Paywall, but accurate.
"Just after dawn on Aug. 12, drones swept overhead as they approached the target along a line of trees between farm fields. Kharchenko’s men had been told Russian drones would be downed by Ukrainian jamming equipment and assumed they were their own. Then the drones began dropping explosives. The trees exploded with machine-gun fire. Grenades lobbed from automatic launchers burst around them. The platoon was incapacitated. More than half of its 20 or so men were dead or wounded within minutes, including the medic.
“What shall we do with the injured? F—!” Senior Sgt. Maksym Serheyev, commander of the first platoon, yelled over the radio to his commander. “There are more of them than us.”
By the end of the day, only three of 22 men in the first platoon remained fully fit.
The Ukrainian government has not released official figures for the total number of soldiers who have been killed or wounded since Russia launched its full-scale invasion nearly two years ago. However, anecdotal evidence of mounting Ukrainian casualties in the war was reinforced by claims made on Ukrainian television this weekend by the country's former prosecutor general.
Yuriy Lutsenko claimed that around 30,000 Ukrainian troops are now being killed or badly wounded per month and that the total casualty toll for wounded and killed in the war is around 500,000.
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