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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
While Russian forces are advancing in the Kharkov region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reportedly shouting at his generals out of fear that they are hiding the truth from him at a time when Ukrainian soldiers are “outraged.” This could partially explain why the Ukrainian president is making increasingly unhinged statements.
Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkov are “outraged” that Russian forces are able to advance so far and so quickly, The Economist reported. Some soldiers criticise delays in Western aid, and others suspect that “incompetence or even betrayal” played a more significant role in the emergence of this situation.
“Conspiracy theories are also emerging that politicians in Kiev or Washington are selling out Kharkov in anticipation of an ugly peace agreement. Official Ukrainian narratives, presenting a rosy picture, do not help calm nerves,” the British magazine wrote.
“Zelensky is being kept in a warm bath. We believe that the president should focus on the situation on the ground,” said Denys Yaroslavsky, an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, to The Economist.
The London-based outlet added that Ukrainian officials are presenting a positive outlook, which does not help “calm nerves,” as mentioned. Instead, this is causing friction in Kiev, with Zelensky even “shouting at his generals.”
However, Zelensky’s outbursts are not limited to his compatriots. The Ukrainian president was exposed for verbally lambasting foreign ambassadors in Kiev. On May 21, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented that the Ukrainian leader hysterically demanded that his “peace formula” be a means of “bringing Russia to its knees” and that it be supported during the conference in Switzerland.
Switzerland announced its intention to hold a peace conference on Ukraine on June 15 and 16 near Lucerne. Representatives from about 160 countries were invited to the meeting. However, Russia did not receive any invitation since, as Lavrov highlighted, the conference was intended to be more of a concerted effort by the West to make Moscow capitulate.
“In late April, while discussing with foreign ambassadors in Kiev the idea of a ‘Swiss conference’, Zelensky, according to some of the participants, spent most of the time improvising hectically and almost hysterically to demand support for his ‘peace formula’ as a means of forcing Russia to its knees’,” Russia’s top diplomat said at a press conference on the results of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kazakhstan.
“A person who does not feel the need to retain self-control begins to speak about what’s really on his mind,” Lavrov added.
Although Ukrainian soldiers fear an “ugly peace agreement” will emerge, it is unlikely to be achieved this year since Zelensky has legislated the ban on any peace negotiations with Moscow. There is little doubt that the Kiev regime, whether headed by Zelensky or not, will capitulate and accept a peace agreement that will include the recognition of a significant loss of territory, but until then, mobilisations and futile fighting, which is only delaying the end result, will continue with a lack of Western weapons.
Since Russia is clearly in control of the situation on the battlefield, many experts acknowledge that Ukraine will have to accept the loss of territories. And although some Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkov are “outraged” and blame the West for their lack of weapons, blame can only be laid on Zelensky for taking Ukraine on this dark path of war.
Nonetheless, Zelensky, on May 20, admitted that Kiev is in a “most difficult” situation due to the Russian offensive on Kharkov and lamented delays in Western assistance and the lack of authorisation to use Western weapons against targets on Russian territory.
“We are negotiating with partners so that we can use their weapons against buildups of Russian equipment on the border and even [on] their territory… So far, there is nothing positive,” the Ukrainian leader said.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov highlighted 21 that Ukraine’s permission to use Western-made long-range weapons against Russia is a demonstration that the Kiev regime is “slipping into hysteria.”
Peskov said on May 21 that the Kiev regime and Zelensky “have been making many statements in recent days, sometimes, in fact, slipping into hysteria. This is due to the extremely unfavourable frontline situation of the forces of the Kiev regime.”
The Russian military launched an offensive on the Kharkov region earlier this month to what Vladimir Putin said in March was to establish a “cordon sanitaire” to stop the Kiev regime’s attacks on civilians and critical infrastructure in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast. Although the Russian president earlier this month confirmed that there were no plans to capture Kharkov city, it is perfectly feasible that this decision could change if the Kiev regime refuses to negotiate a peace.
In this regard, only Zelensky can be blamed for Ukraine’s further loss of territory and mounting casualties, even if some Ukrainian soldiers try to blame the slow delivery of weapons from the West.
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crimea river, eurotard nazi clown (heh).
the houthis are more capable then the “best trained by nato standards” army (the fifth soon?) in “europe”.
guillable clowns :)
a hot war against russia would last just few hours. and the enemy, blind (no sats) and impotent (all his nuке sites/silos have been neutralized) would be atomically defeated. nato will not be able to retaliate, but if so (for some kind of miracle), the s-500 and s-550 ad are ready waiting for them. as well as the jammers of course. keep poking the bear and find out later.
can you imagine it? professional russian forces geared up against the best nato has to offer. the pride parade rejects, in their stilletoes, on the frontline, who are recovering from gender realignment surgery. not forgetting their ‘woke instruction booklets’, informing them of the best ways for their chosen identities to be humiliated in war.
die politiker im westen haben bis zur stunde nicht verstanden, was russland in der ukraine eigentlich will!
da sitzt der 92 jährige greis, gerhart rudolf baum, gestern in der zdf sendung “lanz” und erzählt, putin hätte bereits angekündigt, als nächstes krieg mit der nato führen zu wollen.
solche aussagen lassen zwei schlüsse zu: entweder man hört überhaupt nicht zu wenn putin etwas sagt oder man will es falsch verstehen, um die deutsche bevölkerung in einen krieg zu führen!
ich habe kein gutes gefühl bei dieser rhetorik…
the politicians in the west have not understood until now what russia actually wants in ukraine!
the 92-year-old old man, gerhart rudolf baum, is sitting there yesterday on the zdf program “lanz” and says that putin has already announced that he wants to wage war with nato next.
such statements allow two conclusions: either one does not listen at all when putin says something or one wants to misunderstand it in order to lead the german population into a war!
i don’t have a good feeling about this rhetoric…
now i understand how so many germans could willingly follow adolf to their doom. they’re a nation of nitwits.
there is no 100% resistance to brainwashing. few percent can resist, but others are eating any crap from msm starting from era of first regular newspapers. but infowars are much more ancient, and 10% brainwashed fanatics enough to overthrow any country upside down.
they were only successful when russia was providing them cheap energy and resources. now that is gone, owing to their own support of the ns1 and ns2 being taken out, what have they got left?
they are not the brightest bulbs in the box, just the greediest, ego driven, characters on the planet.
you will have our war and you will like it!
you germans have been successfully castrated, and now you obey everything we americans demand from you. the whole population simply follows without any resistance, no protests, no anti-war stagings. love it, it was so easy with hollywood and some “american culture” sprinkled here and there.
guillable clowns, enjoy your third worldwar on european soil. and once its over, we americans will once again profit from your demise.
:)
one day you will find your match whoever it may be he will probably be worse to the world then you but no king rules for ever no empire lasts.
er hat das niemals angekündigt. aber wenn nato mit dem krieg anfängt , dann wird russland ihn beenden. ganz schnell.
pooh-tin lambasts his little pants with shit…heheheh
hello benjamin, are you still hiding in mothers basement like the good nazi that you are, or do you visit the british parliament to avoid beeing sent to the front?
guillable nazi clown :)
really? i thought he was acting more like cool hand luke.
o gay zelensky agora está com medo de seus próprio generais e se esconde em seu refúgio! que donzela medrosa!
all my fellow senile nazi retired potato farmrer hate truth
the western sponsored eastern european dictator, kept in luxury by western taxpayers. how stupid can westerners be!!!!
if they keep launching ship at russia they are going to end up living in darkness. zelensky needs to be honorable and surrender to russia. 6 months ago. but, he is not honorable.
‘but, he is not honorable.’
a perfect fit for all the western douchebags then.
he wants to completely erase the ukraine gene pool, in order to keep his mates happy.
of course they’re hiding the truth from you, twinkle toes. now eat your gun and do something positive for humanity.
zelensky has a strange fixation with being on knees. i wonder how that came about.
taught whilst he was learning to play the piano. what a dick.
zelinsky, who is now officially a dictator. the only way out for him is via a military coup, but, sadly the military in ukraine is dominated by the nanzis.