https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... at-grinder
Ukraine sent untrained recruits into the battle of Bakhmut to save its professional soldiers for an expected counteroffensive, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
One man, Vladyslav Yudin, told the Journal that he told a sergeant major that he had never fired or even held a gun before. “Bakhmut will teach you,” Yudin was told.
Despite Kyiv’s Western backers advising against expending resources on Bakhmut, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to hold onto the city for as long as he could, but it was fully captured by the Wagner Group and Russian forces this past weekend.
(one of the objectives of the so called counteroffensive was supposed to be the retaking of Bakhmut so seems stupid to save troops and let it go in the first place)
Meanwhile Zelensy's shelling, missile and terrorist attacks into Russia means Russia will have to create a buffer zone which is likely to be half of Ukraine. So by continued escalation by the west their own propaganda that Russia wanted more than just the 4 eastern states is coming true.
Kharkov to join the Belgorod region."
The governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov, in response to a correspondent's question - what else can be done to protect the border areas of the region, suffering from shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine?
One thing to guarantee WW3 would be for Zelensky using F-16s to missile strike Crimea. The west keeps giving bigger and bigger weapons to an increasingly desperate Zelensky makes WW3 all the more likely
