'After Pokrovsk, they will advance faster': Military newsletter

December 3-10. Kurakhove: The Shadow of Soledar or Bakhmut 2.0. Azov vs 'genHOMOsec' Mark Rutte. Sternenko vs Azov. The Velyka Novosylka, Kurakhove, and Pokrovsk fronts.

In this week’s telegram roundup - peace:

• Skepticism about peace plans from Azov military analyst R. Ponomarenko and Azov’s Tales of the IV Reich

• Tales of the IV Reich takes on NATO chief Mark Rutte and the Netherlands - ‘the global capital of faggotry’

• Tales focuses his ire on ex-army chief Zaluzhny, showing that Ukraine’[s bitter militarists are under few illusions regarding the various politicians claiming to speak for them. He also ridicules the military strength of NATO in a confrontation with Russia

• Tales proposes mobilizing the Sorosite activists, and has an interesting analysis of the class structure of the army. Currently it is a ‘worker peasant army’, but recommends mobilizing the ‘petty and middle urban bourgeoisie’.

• Tales reflects on ‘ZOG’ in the context of US demands to lower Ukrainian mobilization age. He also criticizes unwise Ukrainian jubilation around Syria

• Azov telegrams attack the ‘Sorosite nazi’ Sternenko

And war -

• The Velyka Novosylka front - possible encirclements, Russians dig in.

• The Kurakhove front is given interesting analysis by the 46th Brigade and DeepState:

  • Increased Russian drone capacities relative to Ukraine’s forces

  • The similarity of the Kurakhove debacle to that of Bakhmut and Soledar - with the caveat that the logistical characteristics of Kurakhove seem to threaten remaining Ukrainian forces even more with encirclement

  • Encirclement is sometimes not the worst option - even worse is when the encirclement has an ‘opening’ which is controlled by Russian firepower, resulting in higher losses than simple encirclement

  • The mediatized component - soldiers die for Yermak’s presentation in Washington

• Pokrovsk - Russian forces are finally at or near the outskirts of this crucial city

  • Aidar’s Buniatov: Logistics worsen with new Russian drone attacks reported on crucial roads

  • Buniatov: Mental and physical exhaustion of Ukrainian troops

  • Buniatov: Drones are the only thing holding back the enemy, given lack of Ukrainian manpower - unlike the Russians.

  • Buniatov: after Pokrovsk, whose loss everyone has resigned themselves to, the Russian army will move much more quickly

• New scandals over unbuilt fortifications. According to top Ukrainian officers, ‘The faggots [Russians] are digging by hand under shelling faster than our idiots are with tractors in the rear.’. Apparently, there are no defenses once the Russians pass the border of the Donetsk region. It seems that Ukrainian frontline officers have a different opinion to the US military analysts interviewed by WaPo, who claim that Russia will slow down soon for terrain reasons.

• Mariana Bezuhla describes the zombie brigades prepared in France, and promptly gutted once back in Ukraine