The End Draws Nigh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The situation in eastern Ukraine is dire! And the end draws nigh!

 

Already, the number and frequency of Ukrainian soldiers receiving training in US bases in Western Europe has dropped to almost zero in the last months, suggesting that Kiev is running out of men to fight Russian forces. This is according to US officials who informed the Washington Post. 

 

American instructors began training Ukrainian troops in April 2022, with drills taking place at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany. Some 3,100 Ukrainian soldiers had received US training by the end of 2022. The program was expanded in January 2023 to train 12 brigades in the run-up to Kiev’s disastrous summer counteroffensive. In addition to these 12 brigades, three brigades were trained by other European nations, while American instructors taught combined arms tactics to a tank battalion and two national guard battalions. 

 

However, the last brigade trained in Germany left Grafenwoehr, the largest US ovcerseas training command, in January or February, anonymous officials told the Washington Post on Saturday. None have been trained in the months since, “suggesting a depletion of the personnel pipeline”, the newspaper paraphrased.

 

Russian forces are said to be firmly in control of the battlefield situation and are steadily pushing back the Ukrainians, said Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu two Mondays ago. According to Moscow, Kiev’s forces have lost more than 8,000 soldiers in just the past week. 

 

Aleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine's top general has even acknowledged on Sunday that Russian forces are attacking along “the entire front line”, spanning more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). Already, Berdychi, Semenivka, Novomikhailovka, and Bogdanovka, are the latest to have fallen to the Russians.

 

I repeat, the end draws nigh!