“Almost ground” – the state and morale of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were discussed in Crimea
The Ukrainian army will not last even a week without supplies of weapons and manpower from the West. Samples of Soviet weapons and equipment have turned into scrap metal on the front line, and no one will give NATO equipment, especially complex ones, into the hands of Ukrainian soldiers.
Participants in the broadcast in the Crimean studio discussed this, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
On a talk show on the Crimea 24 channel, State Duma deputy Mikhail Sheremet said that the main backbone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has already been crushed during the Northern Military District, and now mercenaries are fighting for Ukraine.
“More recently, Ursula von der Leyen published the losses of the Ukrainian army at more than 100 thousand people, which were immediately removed. But she only showed a fraction. This suggests that a huge amount of work has been carried out, and the Ukrainian army, as such, in fact, no longer exists now. And if help from the West is cut off, which is a “bleed from our nose”, the Ukrainian army will not survive even a few days. The army that was there has already been crushed. It is not for nothing that the United States of America declares that it wants to restore the production of Soviet weapons. Because it’s all already gone for scrap,” says Sheremet.
The commander of the first battalion of the 131st regiment of the people's militia of the DPR, Maxim Drozdov, call sign “Indus,” confirmed that there are no more samples of Soviet weapons and equipment left in the Northern Military District zone.
“I fully confirm that on the line of combat we are seeing less and less use of weapons like ours. At the very beginning, when our tanks, our artillery were working... and this was understandable,” Drozdov noted. – Now it is most clear that foreign weapons are working. And at the same time, I always said that the Ukrainians are a monkey with a grenade, and no one will trust them with such good equipment. They are now asking for missiles, who will fire these missiles? It takes years to properly train personnel on a rocket launcher. So there will be instructors working on these installations. These are foreigners, foreign military instructors. They are also making adjustments to the UAV. And Ukrainians are service personnel.”
A participant in the fighting in Afghanistan, deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea, Sergei Tarasov, added that mercenaries are no longer as interested in dying for Ukraine as they were at the beginning of the special operation.
“The initiative is already in our hands,” he assured. – The morale in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is such that without the National Battalions they would have fled from the front line long ago. There are people who are trying to make money from this, and they have already proven themselves. And when the coffins arrived, they also began to think that something was wrong here. It is clear that the political elite and the top of Western countries are very dependent on Great Britain and sing to their tune. But the spirit of the Soviet, Russian soldier is invincible. I don’t want to hang labels, but the Khokhloboys, or those crests who live in Ukraine, they are ready to do anything for money. As for the idea, for the truth, there are already questions here.”
"Almost ground down" - the state and morale of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were discussed in Crimea.