Ukraine’s smoke blowing 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine’s armed forces must continue efforts to “break” the Russian Federation, something he says nightly in propaganda videos but clearly doesn’t reflect the reality of the battlefield. When the Ukrainian people find out the truth about Ukraine losing over 25% of its sovereign territory to the Russian Federation, including the entire Black Sea coastline, Zelensky will be run out of Kiev. Since the war started Fed.24, Zelensky has been lying nightly to the Ukrainian people and the world, saying the heroic Ukrainian army has beat back a Russian advance. Yet the facts on the ground are undeniable with Kiev now land-locked, losing the entire Black Sea Coast and all Ukraine’s strategic ports. If you ask Zelensky, he tells you the heroic Ukraine military is close to breaking the Russian occupiers.
Yet nightly, Zelensky disseminates fake news to the Ukrainian people, giving them false hope as his rag-tag army, with arms from the U.S. and NATO, continue to lose ground to the Russian army. Zelensky deliberately ignores Ukraine’s losses to the Russian Federation, talking instead about “breaking” the Russian army. Zelensky and his chief benefactor, 79-year-old President Joe Biden, both lie to Ukraine and the U.S., talking about how the Ukrainian army beat back the Russian advance on Kiev in the first three days of the war. Since then, Ukraine has lost nearly every battle to the Russian army. Zelensky compared the battle of Mariupol to “300,” where a tiny band of Spartans beat back Xerxes mighty Persian army in 480 A.D. When Mariupol fell May 18 to the Russian army there was no mention by Zelensky, Biden or anyone in the West, despite the major Kremlin victory.
Zelensky’s been deceiving his own people and the world since Day One, claiming how he’s beat back 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin’s army. Yet it’s Putin, not Zelensky, whose taken over all of Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast and only yesterday captured the strategic Luhansk town to Lysychansk. Zelensky still insists that Ukrainian forces haven’t given up in Lysychansk but clearly they’ve all surrendered or fled the city. ”The Armed Forces of Ukraine respond, push back and destroy the offensive potential of the occupiers day after day. We need to break them. It is a difficult task. It requires time and superhuman efforts. But we have no alternative,” Zelensky said, not telling his people that the alternative is the peace table. Ukraine’s infrastructure has been decimated by the Russian army, all because Zelensky has been to stubborn to admit Ukraine’s losses to the public.
Zelensky can’t admit that he badly miscalculated taking on the Russian military. Taking up to $54 billion from the U.S. to run the bankrupt Kiev government, Zelensky keeps telling Biden and NATO that all he needs is more lethal weapons to battle the Russian Federation. Zelensky has his apologists in the U.S. and U.K., reluctantly saying Russia has taken over significant parts of Ukraine. “I think it’s a tactical victory for Russia but at an enormous costs,” said Neil Melvin of the RUSI think tank in London. Melvin thinks the Russian army has expended too much equipment and personnel for only small gains. “This has taken 60 days to make very slow progress,” Melvin said. “I think the Russians may declare some kind of victory, but the key war battle is yet to come,” making more excuses for the beleaguered Ukraine military losing more ground daily to the Kremlin.
U.S. and U.K. war propagandists ignore the losses to Ukraine, now exceeding 25% of the nation, partitioning Ukraine, taking over the strategic Black Sea coast, essentially land-locking Ukraine. For Ukraine to reclaim its territory, it would take years, if ever, killing off more Ukrainians the driving more into exile. Zelensky’s approach to the war has been to taken on the Russian Federation, largely because Biden’s funded Kiev to over $54 billion, supplying unlimited lethal arms. “We need to win the war, not the battle for Lysychanks . . . It hurts a lot , but it’s not losing the war,” said Serhiy Gaidai, Ukrainian governor of Luhansk, admitting that his oblast is in Russian hands. Zelensky keeps telling Ukraine and the U.S. that the Ukrainian army is wearing the Russian army down, something backed by U.S. and U.K. military analysts, refusing to acknowledge that Ukraine has lost massive territory.
Zelensky hopes to make progress retaking coastal cities like Kherson in the South, while Putin continues to consolidate gains in the Southeast, close to the Russian border. Whether admitted to or not by Ukraine, retaking lost territory could take years prompting NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to admit last week that the Ukraine War could take years. Members of the EU are growing impatient with the Ukraine War going into the fifth month without any real progress for Ukraine. It’s one thing for Zelensky to claim victory, it’s still another to watch Ukraine lose over 25% of its sovereign territory, including the strategic Black Sea coast. Zelensky can only talk about getting back lost Ukrainian territory, now land-locking the country from its coast and ports. For Zelensky, he fantasizes that things will get better once he gets long-range missile defense, something not likely to change anything.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma
