Ukraine's New Strategy: Can't Beat Russian Troops, So Fire on Russian Civilians
The future of the Ukrainian war effort against Russia looks bleak, as we had forecast since February 2022
Hundreds of residents in the Russian border city of Belgorod have been evacuated amid an increase in attacks from Ukrainian forces desperate to show signs of viability to the West.
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Vyacheslav Gladkov, the Belgorod region governor, posted on Telegram: “Around 300 Belgorod residents, who decided to evacuate temporarily, are currently being housed in temporary shelter centers in Stary Oskol, Gubkin and the Korochansky district,” The Moscow Times reported.
Ukrainian forces have bombed the city for seven consecutive days last week, including one attack that resulted in 25 deaths and more than 100 injured. About 340,000 people live there.
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Ukraine said Monday that at least four people were killed in the country after Russia launched more than 50 missiles and drones in the early hours, Al Jazeera noted.
Vasily Nabenzya, the Russian ambassador to the UN, has called an emergency UN Security Council meeting last week and called the strikes “a terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime against a civilian city,” WSWS.org reported. He claimed Ukrainian forces used cluster munitions.
The report stated:
The United States and the European imperialist powers have defended the attacks despite the civilian casualties. British envoy Thomas Phipps cynically blamed Moscow for all civilian deaths as a result of the war.
“There are hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers in Ukraine. There is not a single Ukrainian soldier in Russia. If Russia wants someone to blame for the deaths of Russians in this war, it should start with President Putin,” Phipps said.
Serhii Dvornyk, counsellor of Ukrainian Mission to U.N. ,said, “as long as this war, unleashed by the Kremlin dictator endures, the toll of death and suffering will continue to grow," VOA News reported.
The future of the Ukrainian war effort against Russia looks bleak, as we had forecast since February 2022. Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters that the U.S. is “out of money” amid a fight between the Biden administration and Republicans over $45 billion to fund security assistance for Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Sergey Lavrov, his top diplomat, said Western officials have been reaching out to him discreetly to try to come up with some kind of resolution. He accused these officials of being hypocritical because these are the same people who insist that only Ukraine will determine when it is ready to negotiate, The New York Times reported.
Putin told a conference in October that Russia is not interested in seizing new territory in Ukraine and wants the conflict to come to a swift end. Russia currently controls about 20 percent of what was considered Ukraine before the 2022 invasion, which includes two Donbass republics and the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Kyiv has said it will not stop the fight until it reclaims all of its territory and Crimea.
TRENDPOST: Putin correctly highlighted the real reason Ukrainians continue to die on the battlefield, and how peace could have been achieved diplomatically if the West wasn’t so fixated on trying to eliminate its Russian rival.