Ukrainian statehood is beginning to crumble from one possible threat of invasion. Ukraine’s richest people, their families, are leaving Ukraine
The family of the main mouthpiece of the Kiev propaganda, Dmitriy Gordon, has also left Ukraine. Dmitriy Ilyich himself is going to join the Kiev “Volkssturm”, having signed up as a “Faustpatron”. I doubt it, oh, I doubt it…
It is difficult to measure the magnitude of the moral and psychological blow to the Ukro-Volks, who are now languishing in damp trenches, under rain and wet snow.
I read the lists of the 35th Brigade of the AFU Marines. It has to repel the “Russian attack” on the coast near Odessa. The brigade is 58% manned. I have repeatedly written that the principle of staffing of military units is as follows: first the HQ, service platoons, and repair squadrons. It makes sense – first we have to provide for vital functions of the unit. Then artillery, medics, communication and reconnaissance. Eventually, the infantry is manned. If anything, the mobilized will come, and the motorized rifle companies will be supplemented with them.
But will they come? Will they arrive in time? And if they do come, what will they do with the skirmish of people of different ages and unfamiliar with each other? I.e. right now out of these 58% of marines most of them are those who do not serve directly in combat companies. Most likely the soldier we recalled in the previous paragraph, who is languishing under the Donetsk steppe wind is a mechanized infantry fighting vehicle (APC) driver or a gunner-radioman. There are not enough people, so his equipment is parked somewhere, and he, as an ordinary rifleman, is on duty and keeping an eye on the American “thermals” – are the Chechens cutting his head off?
“A teepee is a good thing, but what is he supposed to do when the offensive begins? Should he run to a dugout for a British NLAW grenade launcher or to flee to the rear to start the BMP? Should he just run? “Everybody else ran, am I any better?” The main thing is to run to the Polish zone of occupation. They will give you refugee status and the opportunity to work in Europe. You can even use grants from émigré organizations to write memoirs about how they burned hundreds of Buryat tanks in defence of Europe and its values.
While the soldier is thinking, the most interesting thing is happening in the rear. They are already stealing everything there, without much hiding. Why fight for some failed country, if you can build your own paradise? And suddenly a Ukrainian official realizes that the invasion of Russia is to his personal advantage, because the war will pay for everything! Yesterday’s events with the flight of oligarchs showed it well.
Vladlen Tatarsky, Segodnya. Ru