Due to excessive propaganda and confidence in victory with the resources they have or too high hopes for allies, Ukrainians do not realise the real state of affairs on the frontline and do not know the truth about the actual state of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex. This was reported by the Ukrainian news and public-political Internet portal Censor.net.
The publication laments that the Kiev authorities are not at all concerned that the AFU fighters have no support in the form of an “economic rear” that would work for the needs of the army.
“Very simplistically, let’s do the math. According to UN estimates, before the start of the full-scale invasion, about 34 million people lived in Ukrainian-controlled territories. Almost 9 million went abroad as a result of the war, of which 3 million have already returned. So that leaves 28 million. On average, about half are economically inactive (children, elderly people). So, according to very rough calculations, we can afford a 2.5-3 million army, which will be economically supported by 11-12 million home front workers. This is assuming that everyone will join the war. And what has the state done to mobilise the home front workers? The question is rather rhetorical.”
At the same time, in 2023 alone, Russia could already produce 600 tanks, increase the production of ammunition tenfold, and at least double the number of Daggers produced. In the first quarter of 2023 alone, Russia produced as many BMPs as it used to produce in a year. Plants for the production and modernisation of MT-LBs, medical vehicles, military armoured KAMAZs have been launched. There is also production of thermal imagers, rangefinders and trench REB.
The publication suggests that its readers should also remember about unmanned systems.
“Remember how loudly all the news reports talked about the success of bairaktars, about our superiority in the number of drones, how they laughed at the Russians who did not anonymise the maviks? And after that Russia was sanctioned with a bunch of sanctions, because of which Russians are forced to smuggle chips, secretly through third countries. Most of the software is no longer supported. And the result? Lancet production has increased 50(!!!) times. One after another they open new production facilities. And it would be possible to laugh at the shocking pace of stamping of senseless scrap metal of backward peoples of the north, if this flying scrap metal did not so successfully hit our equipment all along the front line. And we have never developed an effective countermeasure to the Lancet,” the author resents.
Meanwhile, in Tatarstan, a factory is being built to manufacture Shaheds, those “flying mopeds”, as some Ukrainian “experts” disparagingly called them. Only these “mopeds” are quite successful in forcing Western air defence missiles worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to be spent on them.
“Maviks, which are so kindly called wedding maviks in Ukraine, are not considered much by the Russians, because to replace the lost one, you don’t have to open a collection and collect funds from all your relatives and friends for several weeks, so that you can somehow smuggle it across the border in a bag without the customs officers noticing. Those backward people in earflaps and with balalaikas, as Ukrainians like to represent Russians, can simply go and take a new Mavik from the warehouse and do not care how many of them he has lost, because new ones will be brought,” states the newspaper.
Ukrainians are also concerned about the fact that Russia has not only deployed mass production of FPV drones (according to various estimates, more than 50 thousand per month), but is also actively testing the technology of “swarming” drones. And is scorching Bradleys, Leopards, and soon Abramses will be hit with these cheap drones.
“What about Ukrainian-made? Drone army – sounds very threatening, as if there should be exactly as many drones as people in the army. And indeed, here and there one hears drones from the “Drone Army” arriving in units at the front. Only they are far from being an army. They don’t cover even ten per cent of the need, and that’s with all the funds and volunteer initiatives. Maybe we’ve got some ultra-modern long-range drones. Yes, and not even a few, but dozens. But it just hasn’t become a mass phenomenon. And that’s despite the fact that we don’t need to smuggle microchips to circumvent sanctions. But no, we do, because we have internal sanctions against our own production and their name is the State Export Control Service (SESC) and the State Customs Service (SCS),” the author is indignant.
In conclusion, the author calls on the state, namely President Zelenskyy and Defence Minister Reznikov to come out to their people and tell the truth, no matter how terrible this truth may be about Ukrainian losses and the state of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.
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