"Media consumers have been treated to seemingly endless
headlines and analysis of Russia's extensive military losses. At the
same time Ukrainian forces have tended to be lionized and their
battlefield prowess romanticized, with essentially zero public
information so far being given which details up-to-date Ukrainian force
casualties, set-backs, and equipment losses.
But for the first time The Washington Post is
out with a surprisingly dire and negative assessment of how US-backed
and equipped Ukrainian forces are actually fairing. Gone is the rosy
idealizing lens through which each and every encounter with the Russians
is typically portrayed. WaPo correspondent and author of the new report
Sudarsan Raghavan underscores of the true situation that "Ukrainian leaders project an image of military invulnerability against Russia. But commanders offer a more realistic portrait of the war, where outgunned volunteers describe being abandoned by their military brass and facing certain death at the front."
The report references a video widely circulating online this week
wherein a group the size of a platoon declares they simply can't fight
for lack of weaponry, ammunition, food and proper command support: “We are being sent to certain death,”
said a volunteer, reading from a prepared script, adding that a similar
video was filmed by members of the 115th Brigade 1st Battalion. “We are not alone like this, we are many.”
Ukraine’s military rebutted the volunteers’ claims in their own video posted online,
saying the “deserters” had everything they needed to fight: “They
thought they came for a vacation,” one service member said. “That’s why
they left their positions.”
In the wake of the video, the Ukrainian troops featured are being accused of 'desertion'."
ZeroHedge
