Putin: Ukraine’s Treatment of Its Own Soldiers is ‘Astonishing’
The counteroffensive was supposed to achieve two objectives for Kyiv: regain ground and prove to the West that it is a war worth funding.
Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the current situation on the ground in Ukraine and said the situation at the contact line is “currently stable,” and expressed amazement at the willingness of Kyiv to deploy troops under such brutal conditions.
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“They are throwing [Ukrainian soldiers] on our minefields, under our artillery fire, acting as if they are not their own citizens at all. It is astonishing,” Putin said, according to RT, the Russian news outlet.
It is now widely documented that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed and there has been no major thrust into the Russian frontlines that many in the West were anticipating. The counteroffensive was supposed to achieve two objectives for Kyiv: regain ground and prove to the West that it is a war worth funding.
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There are now reports that Ukraine is no longer attempting to fracture Russia with a hammer blow, but by smaller, more mobile groups that can slowly chip away at the deeply entrenched Russian force.
Col. Douglas MacGregor (ret.), gave a recent interview with Tucker Carlson and spoke about the heavy loses suffered by Ukraine while up against a much stronger opponent.
“Ukraine, we think, lost 400,000 men killed in battle,” MacGregor said. He said Ukrainian forces lost at least 40,000 in the months-long counteroffensive alone.
“I think we’re going to see this army that we’ve spent so heavily on increasingly melt away,” MacGregor said.
The Washington Post reported last week that it is now clear that Ukraine will fail to achieve one of its top objectives, which is to retake the pivotal city of Melitopol. The paper, citing a classified forecast, reported that “Kyiv won’t fulfill its principal objective of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea in this year’s push.”
The assessment lists some of the reasons that Ukraine will likely fall short of its goals, which include Russia’s “brutal proficiency in defending occupied territory through minefields and trenches.”
This was not all that surprising to Western officials, who assumed that Ukraine would suffer tough losses in the effort. But these officials thought that Ukraine would be able to break through the Russian front. That did not happen, and these Ukrainians are still about 50 miles from Melitopol.
The paper said there is already finger-pointing in Washington, with some Republicans and Democrats blaming the Biden administration for not acting faster in providing Ukraine with weapons. Other Republicans have used the problems on the ground as an example of why the U.S. should stop funding the losing effort.
“I had said a couple of months ago that this offensive was going to be long, it’s going to be bloody, it’s going to be slow,” Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the paper. “And that’s exactly what it is: long, bloody, and slow, and it’s a very, very difficult fight.”
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has called for Kyiv to negotiate for a peaceful settlement before Russia invaded Ukraine, not because we agree with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade, but because Ukraine has no chance of winning against a superior Russian military and it would be in the best interest of its government to get along with their superpower neighbor.