Next few days likely to be extremely decisive.
Not because Trump has flipped again and now wants talks about a peace deal - again.
He still refers to huge Russian losses (not Ukrainian) as to why Russia needs to end the war, and he still sounds like he believes it.
It’s moronic because it’s demonstrably untrue.
The people know better, the people hear the truth from the soldiers and that’s why in Ukraine they have to drag people off the streets to be on the errr, ‘winning' side that has ‘minimal losses’, while in Russia they are queuing up to volunteer to be on the errr, ‘losing’ side with ‘horrendous losses’.
Doesn't add up does it.
In the Ukrainian army desertions are off the charts.
21,602 ran from the Ukrainian army in the month of October (a new record).
Ihor Lutsenko (Ukrainian account)
21,602 in October, Twenty one thousand, six hundred two people. That's how much has escaped from the army in the past month. It's official.
That's a record. That's a very bad record.
EVERY TWO MINUTES A MAN RUNS FROM OUR ARMY, By the time you finish reading this post, there will be another fighter on the ski.
Ukraine will become weaker on another defender. And the enemy will become relatively our stronger on one person.
I remind you that these are only official data. And in fact, many cases of voluntary abandonment of a post or first time desertions are not registered.
So 20.000 desertions a month, while Ukraine army chief Syrsky told us a short while ago that he was struggling to find 20,000 new recruits a month.
Ukrainian losses on the battlefield are not being replaced at all.
That’s why losses are being denied by Zelensky, and instead the figures are projected onto the Russian army instead, and for some bizarre reason Trump believes him.
Another recent admission on Ukrainian channels is Ukrainian commanders ordering troops into ‘’human wave’’ counterattacks against the Russian positions as the general situation becomes increasingly desperate, another reason for the increasing desertion rates. (Denys Davydov)
“Everyone wants to be a drone operator. No one wants to get droned. No one wants to be with a shitty Soviet (style) commander who will waste their life for nothing. So you transfer if you can, flee if you can't.”
“Result is the same: a chronic lack of frontline infantry.”
Ukrainian YouTube channels are saying that their troops are not trapped but now is the time to get out, and therein is the continual problem. While sucking up your own propaganda you miss the real cues. The time to get out was actually at least 2 weeks ago.
Meanwhile, the chief of the general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces announced certain decisions regarding Pokrovsk were being made and would be announced soon, which just might indicate the army is about to split from Zelensky’s ‘never surrender’ orders.
The upcoming Ukraine army announcement may show the difference between what the Ukrainian army is really facing compared to what Zelensky and his YouTube army are saying.
Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are trapped in the Pokrovsk area, Zelensky is telling them to fight on (because really they’re winning don’t you know), while the Russians are offering them a chance to surrender.
And now the Ukrainian army high command say they have an important announcement coming.
Are they about to break free of Zelensky's delusion and try to save lives by affirming a surrender in what has become, in reality, a hopeless position?
This could change everything.
Ukrainian desertions massive rise in 2025, last month on graph is September with 17,200;
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