UKRAINE AID BEING THOWN DOWN THE DRAIN

Ukrainian forces have been losing ground in the eastern Donetsk region. The Russians pummel Ukrainian-held trenches, towns and villages with mammoth airdropped glide bombs and artillery fire, and relentlessly send troops, sometimes dozens of times a day, paying little attention to casualties and loss of armored vehicles. Ukrainian forces have retreated from Ocheretyne and several more towns and villages, creating a wedge for Russian forces and endangering larger towns in the Kyiv-controlled part of Donetsk.
Some Ukrainian servicemen with Brigade 155, which took over the town’s defense, blame its fall on their commanders’ mistakes.
“My company was literally destroyed, we carried out tasks in the worst conditions and no one cared, we stormed without support and with stupid command, we defended with almost no support and with the same stupid command,” one of the Ukrainian servicemen wrote on X.
A pro-Kremlin military analyst blamed the fall on the mistakes of Oleksandr Syrskii, Ukraine’s new commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the overall shortage of arms, ammunition and air defense.
“The downside is that all of Ukraine knows, all the servicemen know that there’s no money, no equipment, a dire shortage of air defense systems,” Vladimir Prokhvatilov of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences told the Kremlin-funded Radio Sputnik.
“And when Syrskii commands a withdrawal, people simply run, he provoked the panic himself,” he was quoted as saying.
Syrskii replaced Valerii Zaluzhnyi, an immensely popular top general who reportedly had a falling-out with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over counteroffensive strategies and the urgent need to mobilize hundreds of thousands of men.
Military hardware, including tanks, captured by Russia in Ukraine, are on display in Victory Park for a month-long open-air exhibition leading up to the country’s Victory Day celebrations.
An exhibition of Western military equipment captured from Kyiv forces during the fighting in Ukraine opened Wednesday in the Russian capital.
The month-long exhibition will feature some 30 tanks, armored vehicles and other weapons, said to have been donated to Ukraine by various countries, including the US, the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Australia, and South Africa.
Analysts predict a major Russian breakthrough. Congress and the Biden regime remain oblivious to the obvious; Zelensky is interested in his own bank account as are American politicians, and the best tactic Ukraine and the West can hope for is a negotiated settlement today and not tomorrow.