Dnipro, Friday evening, 15th November
It's winter in Ukraine now, snow quite prolific in the west and middle of Ukraine, Dnipro has had its first snow also, as has most of eastern Ukraine. It's going to be an early, cold, and bleak winter, I can feel it, and more importantly, so can Ukrainians.
Morale throughout Ukraine is as low as Pedo Joe's cognitive ability, or the morality of his admin. It is heartbreaking to watch devastated and exhausted Ukrainians who are now fully aware how dire things are for the country, and themselves. You can ban all news in Ukraine, but everyone has family and friends at the front lines, so everyone knows.
A lot of work has been done to repair power infrastructure, and up until this week, there has been a stable power environment for a couple of months, and it has been a while since any attack was made on Ukraine's power generation, or distribution grid. This has corresponded with Ukraine ceasing strikes against Russian energy infrastructure too. I don't think that was as a result of agreement, I think it's just a reflection of the fact Ukraine's hasn't been striking against Russian energy, so President Putin hasn't ordered retaliatory strikes.
So far only one power outage this last week, but as cold is here now, I am thinking it will get worse quickly.
Prices are starting to rise in the shops, anything not made in Ukraine is much more expensive. Fuel remains constant, much cheaper than in the west...but still increasingly unaffordable for locals.
Energy costs have doubled since last year, and are about to double again. Heating and electricity for the average household is now around 100 % of the average monthly salary.
I just returned to Dnipro from the West, I saw not a single military supply truck heading west, or returning to the fronts in the 2600 km round trip I made. Likewise very little military traffic in and around Dnipro.
Zelensky it seems has forgotten about the Zaporoshnye and Donbass fronts, and soldiers on them tell me most equipment, and munitions are being concentrated in Sumy for the Kursk front. I think that clown regime has decided that as Russia has annexed Zaporoshnye, Kherson and Donbass, why fight for them as they will need to be given up anyhow, so the coke head is concentrating on Kursk to try and stop an advance through Sumy to Kiev, as the actor in chief is a coward, and scared of a Russian advance towards Kiev. It won't stop such an advance, he is too stupid to realise he is shovelling our best units into a killing zone, which is attritioning our armed forces faster than ever, increasing the likelihood of such an assault.
There are several more roadblocks checking cars for mobilisation age men, or deserters heading west, and around Dnipro, there are many soldiers in Dnipro who have simple walked away from the trenches. Nobody believes in victory, so why die for zelenskys greed. Why stay on the front lines when promised supplies never come, and the locals have run out of food to even feed these troops. People are openly critical of zelensky and his cabal, many protests now appearing around the country, still peaceful, no men at them other than TCC officers. Scum of the earth, I certainly hope names are being taken, of those taking names. I can see another influx of asylum seeking nazi's in Canada and the UK very soon.
Russian advances are increasing in intensity, Ukrainian retreats also. Returning soldiers and men i know on the Zaporoshnye and Chasov Yar front talk of very cold, and wet trenches, lack of everything, food, ammunition and replacements, and next to no communication with officers most of whom are 25 km behind the lines. They can go several days withoit hearing from their own commanding officers.
I have begun volunteer evacuation driving with one of the Zaporoshnye charities who organise contact line evacuation, transferring from the group I drive for in Dnipro who work in Donbass region, and it's difficult to convey how mad it is. I was asked to xfer by a friend who helped fix an issue I had with border control, and the change has been horrific. From my own observations, for every wounded soldier extracted, 4 are left to tend to themselves until another run, mostly the next day, and the dead are not bought out. I shudder to think how many wounded don't make it to the next day, and the agony they must feel, pain and the cold don't go away without intervention. The front line medics who supervise the evacs prioritise the seriously wounded we extract, those deemed too serious to survive aren't even considered for evacuation. Our convoy of 16 evacuation vehicles bought out 57 wounded in a run this week, and 11 of them had died before they made it to the military hospital in Zaporoshnye that we evacuate to. Several more I suspect won't survive the operations they will need. My transfer to the Zaporoshnye organisation from my duties extracting from the Donbass/ Kharkiv region has been a difficult transition, and has stopped me from updates here, I don't know how to even convey what I see. It is horrifying, I am not an overly sensitive man, but I fight back tears on every run once the adrenalin subsides and the contact lines are well behind us, and I see a lot of what I would prefer forget when I close my eyes every night. I don't want to say more about this atm, but now understand better my own grandfather who fought in Papua New Guinea during war. There are so many hero's, great men in this conflict, men who have stood up and fight, despite not agreeing with this war, and the many, many more who work behind the front lines organising evacuations, emergency medical treatment and even those involved in logistics. They do this with inadequate resources, with subsistence pay at best, in substandard conditions which continue to deteriorate every day. Away from their families, not knowing what the future will hold, and without any hope even that we can win this war.
The military hospitals in Ukraine are overwhelmed, understaffed, under equipped and have to raise funds from public appeals, as the Zelenksy regime priorities everything else other than the humanitarian needs rising from their warmongering. The Zaporoshnye military hospital was inundated with seriously wounded in the first weeks of the SMO, and it is mind blowing to see it now. Absolutely, life shatteringly devastating, I can think of no other words to describe it. Hell does not have burning pits of fire to torment the wicked, hell is already here in ukraine along a 1300 km front line, and in the military and overflow hospitals treating the thousands of wounded every day, and the devil reigns here on earth in Washington.
I have been asked of late by friends all over the place where it is safe to send donations in ukraine to really help, the below is a good place to start, you can browse registered charities who raise money to really help, and the projects they raise for. Never send money to anyone in Ukraine, especially foreigners who claim to be raising money to help.
https://dobro.ua/en/project/zaporizhzhia_viiskovii_gospital_trimaisia/
Those who support Ukraine, and Ukrainians, do NOT support this war, and they do NOT support giving weapons to Ukraine that only prolong it, and wipe out a generation of Ukrainian manhood, and have brought untold misery and destruction to this country.
I think this will be my last post here, whilst it's a bit therapeutic to write it, I don't see things getting any better in Ukraine until well after the war is over.
I know most of the world never thought of Ukraine, and even more of the world has now forgotten about Ukraine, but despite not believing in a God anymore, I pray Trump stands strong, stops all military supplies to Ukraine, refuses to acknowledge zelensky as it's president until elections are held and rather than telling Europe to take over, tells them to stand down. Please, it's not too much to ask, keep your word. Ukrainians can't take this much longer, every day while we wait for Trump to take office, thousands more are dying on both sides, many more seeing their lives destroyed. For what? Vanity? Reputation? Morality? Freedom? Democracy? These are all words without relevance when describing the usa.