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Big news from Ukraine today.

One of Ukraine’s leading propaganda outlets came with a most surprising admission about how badly the war is going for Ukraine after 1½ months of “biggest counteroffensive”: morale is suffering with no quick end in sight (see this).

Front-line Ukrainian soldiers told Kyiv Post their units are suffering from poor morale because of constant and accumulating losses, sometimes poor support and limited summer offensive ground gains against a tough and deeply dug-in Russian opponent.

Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) enlisted soldiers in individual interviews said slow, deliberate assault tactics currently used by Ukrainian military that have left individual fighters strongly suspecting they will be hit, and possibly killed, well before a break-through on the front could take place.

“The situation is very hard. The Russians were given too much time to get prepared for the widely announced Ukrainian counteroffensive. It was clear to them that one of the directions of the Ukrainian strike, if not the main one, would be Zaporizhzhia,” a combat medic said. He requested Kyiv Post not make his name public.

Read the Kyiv Post report here.

That Ukraine admits to faltering morale and invisible gains says all.

Losses of 700 Ukrainian dead wounded for no gain at all is considered a “normal” day for Ukraine at the front. Every day, Ukraine takes unsustainable losses – and gets nowhere. On the contrary, Russia has gradually started to roll-back Ukraine. The American war propaganda like Washington Post keeps lying to the Ukrainians that there is no reason for them to feel gloomy because they can “win” although they lose all the time. But the Ukrainians themselves are about to have had enough. Their morale and will to fight is running out.

While NATO has run out of machines and ammo to send, and Ukraine is running out of ammunition, air defense, and living males to draft, Russia has built up a record supply of machines, air power, artillery, and ammunition and is preparing for a possible new partial mobilization:

“Today, our industry is able to provide the grouping that is located in the NVO. If something is more ambitious, then the possibility of mobilization will be considered.” See this.

Russia is building up, and Ukraine has already depleted most of its offensive potential.

At the end of this year 2023, there will be no Ukraine left the way it used to exist for the past couple of decades.

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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.

He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

Featured image: Image of Russian troops in Ukraine. Credit: Ukraine MoD/Facebook