Russia claims it destroyed the first German-made Leopard II tank June 8 in the Zaporizhzhia region<\/p>\n
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Gateway Pundit reported<\/a> that Russia claims Ukraine has suffered 26.000 casualities in one month of its failed \u201ccounter-offensive.\u201d Now, even war hawk Foreign Policy magazine concedes that young men in Ukraine are being pressed into military service with no training and sent into the \u201dmeat grinder\u201c in Donetsk.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOn July 5, Ukrainian army generals issued a proclamation<\/a> dramatically expanding the martial law prohibiting Ukrainian civilian men\u2019s freedom of movement, calling on all those \u201cliable for military service\u201d to remain in their home districts\u201c, writes Amherst professor Charli Carpenter on Foreign Policy<\/a>, the magazine of the saber-rattling Council on Foreign Relations, where Joe Biden famously boasted about blackmailing Ukraine with $1 billion to get the prosecutor inverstigating Hunter Biden\u2019s company Burisma fired.<\/p>\n \u201cWith the Twitter hashtag #UkraineLetMenOut<\/a>, citizens had\u00a0already been complaining<\/a> bitterly about men being unable to leave the country with their families since Russia\u2019s invasion,\u201d Carpenter writes. \u201cAfter the new proclamation came down, one Ukrainian tweeted<\/a>, \u201cNow we can\u2019t even leave our cities without permission from military recruitment centers.\u201d Another\u00a0tweeted<\/a>, \u201cAnimals have more rights in Ukraine than men.\u201d\u201c<\/p>\n Carpenter quotes a young man hiding out in Lviv, Ukraine, he calls Andrij, who was separated from his mother, sister, and fianc\u00e9e when they fled to London, while Andrij was forced to stay behind.<\/p>\n \u201cMy fianc\u00e9e and sick mother need me abroad so that I can work and help them. Now I can\u2019t even help myself, I am left alone with strangers [and] without a home and cannot leave the country,\u201d he quotes Andrij. \u201cMy friends and I have no experience and we do not want to hold weapons and cannot physically fight. I live in fear they will send me to war without proper training. My friends were trained for five days and sent to Donetsk. I\u2019m worried about the men in this country, many others are worse off than me.\u201d<\/p>\n Ukraine has lost about 20% of military equipment and weapons since it started its counteroffensive, the New York Times<\/a> reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n An Invasion of Crimea would cost Kiev upwards of 200.000 lives, according to Aleksey Arestovich<\/a>, a former adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.<\/p>\n The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed they had repelled 17 Ukrainian attacks July 15, at a cost of 385 Ukrainian caasualties, four armored fighting vehicles, six pickup trucks, and two towed howitzers, SouthFront<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n According to Russian MoD claims, the Ukraine has lost 10,711 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,138 fighting vehicles equipped with multiple-launch rocket systems MLRS, 5,462 field artillery cannons and mortars, 11,678 motor vehicles, 455 airplanes, 242 helicopters, 5,015 UAVs and 426 air defense missile systems in the war so far.<\/p>\n According to Dutch open-source trackers Oryx<\/a>, Russia has lost 10,904 pieces of military equipment since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, of which 7,251 were destroyed, 414 damaged, 407 abandoned, and 2,832 captured. In total, Russia has lost 2,082 tanks \u2013 or an average of 130 per month, Oryx claims.<\/p>\n NBC showed a Ukrainian soldier driving a $500.000 MRAP vehicle who said he had received no training on the vehicle, but instead \u201cused Google\u201d.<\/p>\n\n Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized Joe Biden\u2019s decision to call up 3,000 reservists to augment U.S. troops in Europe: \u201cI want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It\u2019s about preparing for a ground war with Russia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n President Biden just called up 3,000 reservists to augment U.S. troops in Europe as part of “Operation Atlantic Resolve.” I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It’s about preparing for a ground war with Russia.https:\/\/t.co\/YCzL0UWoo0<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Biden has lost his way. He is out of touch with the real needs and priorities of the American people. Do you care more about global military dominance, or would you like to rebuild our prosperity from the inside out? #Kennedy24<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n The post Young Men in Ukraine Hide in Fear of Being Sent to Die: \u201cMy Friends Were Trained for 5 Days and Sent to Donetsk\u201d<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russia claims it destroyed the first German-made Leopard II tank June 8 in the Zaporizhzhia region \u00a0 Gateway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n