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The New York Times is now actively shilling against the Ukraine war, publishing regular articles about how hopeless it is, and seeming to indict the leadership of the Ukraine for sending boys to die unnecessarily.
The Western media, including the Times, has been framing the battle as basically hopeless now, saying Zelensky is “messianic” (delusional). But a report about soldiers being forced to waste their lives for no good reason, and actually interviewing soldiers making accusations against the government, is something new, as that implies that the Ukraine leadership is evil.
Most of you, my friends, probably don’t read the New York Times every day. Honestly, I don’t read it nearly as much as I used to, but I do check the big articles on the Ukraine. I don’t check for facts, but for the tone. The change in tone is extreme. It feels like just weeks ago they were saying the Ukrainians were going to “punch through” and “create a land bridge” to “isolate Crimea.”
Things are very different now.
There was a faint tremor in the marine’s voice as he recounted the murderous fighting on the east bank of the Dnipro River, where he was wounded recently.
“We were sitting in the water at night and we were shelled by everything,” the marine, Maksym, said. “My comrades were dying in front of my eyes.”
For two months, Ukraine’s Marine Corps has been spearheading an assault across the Dnipro River in the southern region of Kherson to recapture territory from Russian troops. The operation is Ukraine’s latest attempt in its flagging counteroffensive to breach Russian defenses in the south and turn the tide of the war.
Soldiers and marines who have taken part in the river crossings described the offensive as brutalizing and futile, as waves of Ukrainian troops have been struck down on the river banks or in the water, even before they reach the other side.
Conditions are so difficult, a half-dozen men involved in the fighting said in interviews, that in most places, there is nowhere to dig in. The first approaches tend to be marshy islands threaded with rivulets or meadows that have become a quagmire of mud and bomb craters filled with water.
The soldiers and marines gave only their first names or asked for anonymity for security reasons, and commanders declined almost all media requests to visit military units in the Kherson region.
Several soldiers and marines spoke to journalists out of concern about the high casualties and what they said were overly optimistic accounts from officials about the progress of the offensive.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that it was not immediately possible to comment on the soldiers’ accusations but that it would provide a response in due course.
Some of the heaviest fighting has been in the village of Krynky, on the east bank 20 miles upriver from Kherson city, where Ukrainian troops seized a narrow strip of fishermen’s houses — the only place where they managed to establish a toehold.
There was a “toehold,” yes. Though in my view, the Russians allowed them to do that to open up a killing field for the Ukrainians to feed bodies into.
What does the Times say?
But footage of the area, livestreamed from a drone and seen by The New York Times, verified soldiers’ accounts of heavy Russian airstrikes that have destroyed the houses and turned the river bank into a mass of mud and splintered trees.
Fresh troops arriving on the east bank have to step on soldiers’ bodies that lie tangled in the churned mud, said Oleksiy, an experienced soldier who fought in Krynky in October and has since crossed multiple times to help evacuate the wounded.
Some of the dead marines have been lying there for as long as two months, as units have been unable to retrieve the bodies because of the intense shelling, said Volodymyr, a deputy company commander who was attending the funeral of one of his men, identified only as Denys, last week.
And:
In the case of the Dnipro, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other officials have suggested recently that the marines have gained a foothold on the eastern bank. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a statement last month claiming they had established several strongholds.
But marines and soldiers who have been there say these accounts overstate the case.
“There are no positions. There is no such thing as an observation post or position,” said Oleksiy. “It is impossible to gain a foothold there. It’s impossible to move equipment there.”
“It’s not even a fight for survival,” he added. “It’s a suicide mission.”
Oleksiy said the Ukrainian commanders’ poor preparation and logistics had decimated his battalion. Wounded men were being left behind because of a lack of boats, he said, and the brutal conditions were degrading morale and soldiers’ support for each other.
“People who end up there are not prepared psychologically,” he said. “They don’t even understand where they are going. They are not told by the command that sends them there.”
Oleksiy agreed to let The Times publish his account out of frustration at the losses. “I did not see anything like this in Bakhmut or Soledar,” he said, referring to two of the most intense battles on the eastern front. “It’s so wasteful.”
It sounds like they’re describing what I just said, huh?
This is a really simple Russian strategy, to open up these areas and allow Ukrainians to enter and then just totally slaughter them. It’s a strategy some of the gamers will recognize. It’s intuitive, in war and in gaming, that you want to get the enemy to move somewhere where it is easy to kill them, and often you want to provide the opening for them.
The Ukraine military obviously understands that Russia does this, and yet they continue to feed men into these killing fields.
Part of that is a result of the obsession of Washington – primarily by non-military men – with the idea that the Ukraine needs to “show progress” so the media can report on it. This was a big deal at the beginning of the “Spring Counteroffensive” back in July, when the media kept repeating that the Ukrainians had “taken some small villages.” They didn’t “take” them, the Russians pulled out so that the Ukrainians could move in and be slaughtered.
The military strategy issues are not my personal focus. I’m more interested in the media narrative, as that speaks to what the government is thinking. And the Times is now reporting this “small progress” for what it is – feeding troops into Russian death traps for no reason anyone can explain.
What that means is that the war is over.
Also, if anyone is keeping score, it means I’m totally vindicated. But I doubt anyone is keeping score. I’m not. Just for the record.
