Ukrainian volunteer fighters in the east feel abandoned

DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine — Stuck in their trenches, the Ukrainian volunteers lived off a potato per day as Russian forces pounded them with artillery and Grad rockets on a key eastern front line. Outnumbered, untrained and clutching only light weapons, the men prayed for the barrage to end — and for their own tanks to stop targeting the Russians.

“They [Russians] already know where we are, and when the Ukrainian tank shoots from our side it gives away our position,” said Serhi Lapko, their company commander, recalling the recent battle. “And they start firing back with everything — Grads, mortars.

“And you just pray to survive.”

Ukrainian leaders have projected and nurtured a public image of military invulnerability — of their volunteer and professional forces triumphantly standing up to the Russian onslaught. Videos of assaults on Russian tanks or positions are posted daily on social media. Artists are creating patriotic posters, billboards and T-shirts. The postal service even released stamps commemorating the sinking of a Russian warship in the Black Sea.

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By NC ScoutPublished On: May 28, 2022Categories: Uncategorized1 Comment

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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

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CPL Antero Rokka May 28, 2022 at 05:27

Gee whiz! Funny, ain’t it?

After weeks of: “RUSS Army Completely Destroyed.” or “UKR WINNING!” we now learn that the legacy MSM was, as usual, pulling a Psy-Ops war 24/7 on willing dupes and useful idiots consuming their garbage.

Jeffy Bezos’ WA-PO has been given the initial task of “letting the rubes down easy,” eh? Truth can be an awful sour medicine to swallow after you’ve been lied to for months.

Same with that mummified carcass, Henry “The Kissinger” who basically told Soros and Klausie The Schwab running the WEF to tell Zelensky: “Ya want peace in UKR? Give you up a lot of your dirt, blood, and treasure to RUSS/”

YOW! Now THAT is like forcing a huge spoonful of castor oil to a fractious sick kid. (Which they truly are–adults acting and thinking like children: 1 Corinthians 13:11.)

A whole nother story for civilian guys with zero combat training in a water-filled trench eating a spud a day, getting a shot and shell chorus 24/7 over their noggins. THAT tends to wear on you. Especially if your CO has bugged out and left you with no ammo, food, or med supplies.

Easy for billionaire Zelensky and “Joe Biden” and their medias safe and sound to talk the talk–but have others ‘walk the walk” alongside the Grim Reaper. No bueno, for sure.

There are two huge LOSERS in this: the lame-street legacy media, who are lying POS (which is so damn obvious) and the UKR people who have been fed to the wolves by the UNI-POLAR USA/UK/EEC beast of empire. An empire of the setting sun.

PS This proxy war stuff? Let’s all whup the Rooskies and Chinaman! HOO-RAH! If they think nothing about sending “others” out to get killed, maimed, deserted, robbed, pilfered, and have their families and homes displaced, country ravaged, farms, ranches, and businesses levelled –what in hell do you think they plan do with you and me?