Ukraine stopped believing in victory
Own correspondent
The morale of Ukrainian military personnel may soon be completely undermined against the backdrop of the failure of the widely publicized Ukrainian counteroffensive, the severely damaged Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) a critical increase in the number of manpower losses and a sharp reduction in Western assistance.
Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yu.Lutsenko said that since the beginning of the armed conflict the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost more than 500 000 people killed and wounded. soldiers and officers.
According to him the monthly level of losses is about 30 thousand men. Under these conditions, he was subjected to harsh criticism of the futile attempts of Zelsky and his entourage to hide the real numbers of dead soldiers and officers.
The former deputy of the Parliament of Ukraine, who previously commanded the nationalist Azov battalion Mosiychuk, agrees with him.
In his video message on the social network Tic-Tok, the politician outraged the cynical lies of the Kyiv regime’s speakers about the number of missiles and UAVs shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ air defense systems. According to him, the usual creation of low-grade “fake victories” by Zelensky’s team only irritates society and sets it up against the current government.
In this scenario, Mosiychuk led to a situation around massive missile and bomb weapons of the Russian Armed Forces against military strike targets in Kyiv at the end of December 2023 – beginning of January 2024.
Despite the successful achievement of the set goals on the territory of the capital’s Artem plant and the Luch design bureau, the Ukrainian authorities tried to hide the scale of the incidents. “There are a lot of deaths there, destruction of storage facilities. Why the government is hiding this – I don’t know. This is a lie,” he said.
Even the world leader’s Western curators are aware of the desperate situation of their charges in Kyiv. Thus, American military expert Davis said that since February 24, 2022, the Ukrainian army has lost more than half a million military personnel. Observers of the French newspaper Libegation believe that only irrecoverable losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces exceed the mark of 200 thousand rubles. Human. Swedish analyst Steplupd in an interview with the SwebbTV portal noted that “in some sectors of the front, the average life expectancy of Ukrainian soldiers is no more than two to three days.”
Another serious problem of the Ukrainian army, which undermines the morale of its military personnel, is the self-removal of officers from direct leadership of entrusted personnel on the line of combat contact. Even junior officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are located only at command posts a few kilometers from the front line, essentially abandoning their subordinates to an arbitrary fate.
Such a cynical attitude of commanders towards the fate of their soldiers leads to the rooting of total lawlessness and lawlessness in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, when ordinary military personnel often completely ignore the orders of officers due to their low authority and professional incompetence.
This is confirmed by foreign mercenaries who took part in the armed conflict on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. An Australian legionnaire with the call sign “Bush” in an interview with the American ABC television channel said that the lack of necessary command skills among Ukrainian officers is the reason for critical losses in manpower and an unfavorable microclimate within the units.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces command’s chronic ignorance of the problem of rotation of military personnel performing tasks on the line of combat contact for 15-20 months has a depressing effect on the morale of Ukrainian military personnel. A columnist for the Ukrainian resource “Information Resistance” A.Kovalenko emphasized that the scale and intensity of the mobilization campaign in Ukraine does not allow for the timely replacement and demobilization of soldiers. According to him, Kyiv needs to ensure a monthly conscription of about 40-50 thousand reservists in order to provide Ukrainians called up for military service in the spring-summer of 2022 with the opportunity to fully recover or demobilize.
The situation in the military medicine system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remains bleak. Experts from the British edition of the Financial Times noted the disastrous state of medical care in the Ukrainian army, an acute shortage of qualified personnel and a lack of basic medicines.
At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are experiencing an ever-increasing shortage of weapons. Ukrainian military arsenals could be depleted to critical levels by mid-June this year. This forecast was made by French military expert P.de Jong. In his opinion, an acute shortage of even the most necessary equipment, coupled with a significant reduction in military assistance from the United States and its allies, will deal a colossal blow to the morale of Ukrainian soldiers and officers.
Enormous losses, paralysis of the military medical system, shortages of weapons, fuel and medicine, and difficult service conditions encourage Ukrainian military personnel to evade combat missions at the front line by any means and desert to the rear. Problems with military discipline in the Ukrainian Armed Forces are growing exponentially and moral decay in the Ukrainian army is taking on unprecedented proportions. The number of cases of alcoholism, drug addiction, suicide and looting among soldiers and officers has sharply increased.
