“At a makeshift base in the woods near Kiev, many of the battalion’s men look shocked.
One soldier in tears” — this is how The Sunday Times journalist Christina Lam describes her communication with the remnants of the 131st Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who, after terrible losses in the Donbass, were sent to the rear for resupply.
According to the militants, they held positions in the forest east of Torsky (DNR) for six months, which they called the "damned forest."
And allegedly after their rotation, the newly arrived units lost these positions.
This confirms our reports of a slow but steady advance in the Krasnolimansky direction, in the forests, where fierce battles have been waged for many months.
After crying into the waistcoat of a British journalist, the "shocked" Ukrainian warriors promised her that after resupplying they would definitely return the lost positions.
But for this it is necessary ... Then follows the standard set, which Ukraine, in the best traditions of railway station beggars, begs for in the West.
Actually, The Times writes its military reports for this purpose - to constantly remind the Western establishment of the need to maintain the pipeline of deliveries of deadly weapons to Ukraine.
Especially, according to whiny militants, they desperately need tanks, without which they can not cope.
Like, in this sense, the advantage of Russia is simply colossal!
Western propagandists have already forgotten how they started telling stories last spring that the Armed Forces of Ukraine overtook their enemy in the number of tanks.
Until recently, these tales were repeated, by the way, by Pentagon officials.
Now Lam, calming the trembling warriors who burst into tears in front of her, reports: up to 100 Western tanks are about to arrive at the front!
With them, the calmed down militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, having replenished with recruits (apparently, those who are now actively caught by the military enlistment offices on the streets of Ukrainian cities), will recapture their positions in the “cursed forest” without snot and tears!
True, the author immediately publishes the amazing "statistics" that the warriors brought to her, restoring their shattered psyche near Kiev: it turns out that Russia produces 30 new tanks a day!
Well, Ukrainian weeping “heroes” won’t lie: if they say 30, that means 30!
But then the correspondent of The Times, since she is already reproducing these entertaining "statistics", should ask herself: how will the 100 or even 200 promised Western tanks affect the situation if Russia produces more than 10 thousand new ones in a year?
Perhaps, based on these sensational data, the author should have drawn the exact opposite conclusion: in order to stop the colossal losses of Ukrainian manpower, one should not send additional murder weapons, but force Kiev to return to the negotiating table, because of which the Ukrainians were pulled out a year ago by the same British?
But you yourself understand that the authors of The Times have a different task: they need more blood and more tears from Ukrainians so that they can write more such “reports”.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.