Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov displays his letter of resignation<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sunday he is firing Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov (Gateway reported<\/a>) in the face of massive losses and halting Ukrainian \u201ccounter-offensive\u201d. Reznikov said the West has provided Ukraine with $100 billion in arms, including $50 billion from the USA. Ukraine claimed it had pierced the first line of Russian defenses in the south of Ukraine, as the BBC acknowledged \u201ca dramatic rise in Ukraine\u2019s number of dead\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n On Sunday Volodymr Zelensky Zelensky said the Defense Ministry \u201cneeds new approaches and new formats of interaction both with the military and society as a whole.\u201d He said he would propose Rustem Umerov, current head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, to the Ukrainian Rada (parliament) this week.<\/p>\n Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov wrote that he had submitted his letter of resignation to \u00a0the Chairman of the Parliament of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk. In an interview with state media platform Ukrinform, Reznikov estimated<\/a> that Ukraine\u2019s Western backers have given Kiev at least $100 billion worth of weapons, including more than $50 billion from the US alone.<\/p>\n I have submitted my letter of resignation to Ruslan Stefanchuk @r_stefanchuk<\/a>, Chairman of the Parliament of Ukraine @verkhovna_rada<\/a> \u2014 Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) September 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Over the weekend, intense fighting continued in the Robotyne area, with Ukraine claiming the village had been taken and Russia claiming all attacks had been repelled. The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed Ukraine lost 570 men on Sept. 1 and 655 men on Sept. 2. Russia claimed Ukraine had lost 43,000 men<\/a> in the first two months of the counter-offensive. Daily casualty reports by the Russian Ministry of Defense put the Ukrainian losses in August at over 16,000, meaning total Ukrainian losses in the the counter-offensive of approx. 60,000.<\/p>\n As Ukrainian losses mount, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar threatened anyone who releases casualty numbers with criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n \u201cSevere AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine) manpower losses in the course of so-called \u2018counteroffensive\u2019 are caused by the Russian Forces effective strikes at Ukrainian armored hardware at distant approaches\u201d, the Russian Ministry of Defense<\/a> claimed. \u201cAFU formation command purposefully throws manpower in assaults as cannon fodder to cross Russian Forces minefields on foot with no fire support.\u201d<\/p>\n The Ukraine Ministry of Defense claims that Russian figures of Ukrainan losses are wildly exaggerated.<\/p>\n The Law of Leopard Conservation. 33rd Mechanized Brigade pic.twitter.com\/HCUIOii7Nj<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) September 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n The BBC\u2019s Quentin Sommerville<\/a> reported \u201ca dramatic rise in Ukraine\u2019s number of dead,\u201d according to new estimates by unnamed US officials. Sommerville is one of the few journalists reporting from the front lines, \u201cwhere the grim task of counting the dead has become a daily reality\u201d, he writes.<\/p>\n \u201cThe unknown soldiers lie piled high in a small brick mortuary, not very far from the front line in Donetsk, where 26-year-old Margo has the thankless job of counting the dead.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSoldiers lie piled high in a small brick mortuary\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cUkraine gives no official toll of its war dead \u2013 the Ukrainian armed forces have reiterated that their war casualty numbers are a state secret \u2013 but Margo knows the losses are huge,\u201d Sommerville reports.<\/p>\n Estimates put the number of Ukrainian casualties between 70,000 and 400,000. The Ukraine Ministry of Defense claims 264,660 Russian casualties since beginning of the war, but other estimates put the number at 50-60,000. Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> has claimed an 8 to 1 casualty ratio in favor of Russia. \u201cThey are throwing (their soldiers) on our minefields, under our artillery fire, acting as if they are not their own citizens at all. It is astonishing,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe hardest is when you see a dead young guy who hasn\u2019t even reached 20, 22 years old. And realizing they didn\u2019t die their own death,\u201d Margo told the BBC\u2019s Sommerville. \u201cThey were killed. They were killed for their own land. That\u2019s the most painful. You cannot get used to this. It\u2019s now getting to the point where it\u2019s just about (helping) the boys reach home.\u201d<\/p>\n The most difficult day of her life, Margo told the BBC, was when her 23-year old husband Andrii was brought into the mortuary on 29 December 2022. \u201cHe died while defending his motherland,\u201d Margo says. \u201cBut then, for the umpteenth time, I\u2019ve convinced myself that I should be here, I should be helping the fallen.\u201d<\/p>\n AFU “Takes” #Robotyne<\/a>\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/cbQYi5lZeq<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 \u043a\u043e\u043b\u044f1975 (@ososff_osoff) August 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Sommerville spoke to a deputy battalion commander of the 68th Jaeger Brigade near Kupyansk in the north. The man goes by the call-sign \u201cLermontov\u201d and was in a \u201cgrim mood,\u201d as he expected the war to last \u201canother 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n On August 1, the brigade\u2019s sergeant major and two other sergeants were killed in a single Russian mortar strike, Sommerville reports. \u201cHe was a legend,\u201d Lermontov told him.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we spoke, Lermontov\u2019s phone buzzed. It was the mother of a soldier killed the week before. She wanted to know why young men with guns were being sent to attack Russian trenches if Ukraine had been gifted so much modern Western weaponry. But on this 600-mile front line many brigades lack the latest armored vehicles or long-range guns. The reality is that in many of the trenches, Ukrainian soldiers have to make do. \u201cI don\u2019t have an answer for her, she doesn\u2019t understand\u2026 we don\u2019t have everything,\u201d Lermontov told Sommerville.<\/p>\n Sommerville asked Colonel named Oleksii of the 68th Jaeger Brigade what he tells the families of the fallen. \u201cI just ask for forgiveness that I have not provided enough safety. Maybe I was a bad leader, bad planning. And I thank them for what they gave for this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n Foreign Mercenaries Head for the Hills<\/strong><\/p>\n Foreign fighters in Ukraine report \u201ca mismanaged and chaotic Ukrainian military using ill conceived tactics\u201d. ZeroHedge writes<\/a>. \u201cSome say that the units they were assigned to have lost 80% or more of their men in recent months.\u00a0 Ukraine military leadership has also been misusing their fleet of tanks and armored vehicles from NATO, sending them \u2018straight into mine fields\u2019 in some cases.\u00a0 As volunteers note, the Ukrainians were given training on how to operate the vehicles, but no training on how to use them effectively in a fight. \u201c<\/p>\n ZeroHedge also quotes \u201ca flurry of reports\u201d suggesting that \u201cfriendly fire has been doing significant damage, so much so that \u201cmercenaries\u201d have taken to covering themselves in reflective blue or yellow tape so that they aren\u2019t mistaken for Russian troops.\u201d<\/p>\n One potential explanation is the decrease in foreign fighters, ZeroHedge writes. Approx. 20,000 mercenaries (many combat veterans) were thought to be fighting with Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n The question remains how many foreign fighters are actually Western combat troops send by the Biden Regime and its allies to conduct covert warfare without congressioonal approval. \u201cAt least one General out of the UK let slip that Royal Marine units were in fact deployed on high risk operations in Ukraine.\u00a0 Sources also indicate that US special operations teams have been stationed out of the US embassy in Kyiv since the beginning of the war\u201d,\u201d ZeroHedge writes. \u201cThe presence of highly trained western covert ops troops in Ukraine would help explain the far more effective offensive in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n Official PMC numbers fell from 20,000 in 2022 to as low as 1500 this year, ZeroHedge reports. \u201cHeavy casualties, high odds of friendly fire and lack of protection under the Geneva Convention are likely causes for the abrupt decline in foreign mercenaries in Ukraine in 2023.\u00a0 \u201c<\/p>\n \u201cIs Ukraine relying almost entirely on veteran fighters from Europe and the US to do their dirty work?\u00a0 Recent losses and disorganization in tandem with the decline in overseas volunteers indicate that this may be the case.\u201c<\/p>\n Poland has now started extraditing Ukrainian draft dodgers, Rzeczpospolita<\/a> reports. Rzeczpospolita estimates about 80,000 unregistered Ukrainians are hiding in Poland. \u201cIf we detain such a foreigner, for example, during a simple check on the road, our National Police Information System will show that he is wanted by the Ukrainian Prosecutor\u2019s Office, because Interpol data feature there. We detain such a person, inform the prosecutor\u2019s office, and the court decides on the extradition,\u201d Polish police spokesperson Mariusz Czarka<\/a> explained.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post $100 Billion Later: Zelensky Fires Defense Minister Reznikov As Bodies of Cannon Fodder Pile High in Ukrainian Morgues<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov displays his letter of resignation \u00a0 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sunday he is<\/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-17350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
It was an honor to serve the Ukrainian people and work for the #UAarmy<\/a> for the last 22 months, the toughest period of Ukraine\u2019s modern history.
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The number of destroyed Leopards in the russian ministry of defense\u2019s daily reports does is not correlated in any way to the number of Leopard 2A4 tanks in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n