Why was the UN using a hotel frequented by foreign fighters and Ukrainian military personnel? Were they providing aid and advice to the Ukrainian military or were they being used as human shields? Why did they never report on or object to this inappropriate activity?

And while we're at it, what civilians were being evacuated from Azovstal in May 2022? Was the United Nations coordinating or liaising with the Azov Regiment at the time? What "humanitarian aid" organizations is this UN humanitarian coordinator talking about and what is their overlap in membership with the Ukrainian Foreign Legion?

Good night!

It occurs to me that those green-packaged Ukrainian MREs seem to have almost entirely dried up on the front line. I hadn't seen them for months until I noticed a bunch in a video that came out today. The AFU seems to have largely regressed to its logistical situation of last summer when they were handing out raw food and civilian canned goods to feed the troops in the field. Now the odd thing is that MREs should be among the easiest military items to source, and there's multiple factories in Europe that should be producing them. Makes me wonder about the status of those factories now.

I'm pretty sure the various NATO armies in Europe are out of field rations by this point anyways, most of those got donated early last year and I doubt they've been replaced. Maybe there's no money for it?

Of course given the average combat lifespan of a Ukrainian soldier on the front line these days it's a wonder they're feeding them at all...

So in other news the Ukrainian connoscription system apparently just imploded after Zelensky decided to fire the people in charge of running it - and, corruption aside, who have been doing an excellent job at shoveling Ukrainian manpower into uniforms and off to the front - for "corruption." Of course this is nonsensical, corruption is a fact of life in Ukraine and officials cannot be expected to not wet their beaks. They're apparently to be replaced with combat veterans, probably the most fanatical Azov types that can be found.

Most Ukrainian politicians and officials are deeply corrupt as a rule and this situation cannot be news to Zelensky. So corruption is obviously a pretext and there's something deeper going on.

This goes back to my earlier post about the point at which a society at war hits military collapse due to excessive casualties burning through the supply of acceptable military manpower. Ukraine is, right now, entering the national equivalent of hemorrhagic shock from losing a huge amount of its military-aged men, and there are likely few acceptable recruits left. The recruiters are probably not meeting their targets and have not been for some time - hence the radical solution of firing them all in the hopes that more hardened and ideological characters can make the numbers.

Of course there's far more to connoscripting people than simply being brutal enough to force the unfit into uniform. It requires real administrative skills that none of these goons will have, which is going to lead to a rapid collapse in intake numbers and will degrade the AFU's fighting power all the quicker.

This has a close historical parallel with the Third Reich, as Hitler increasingly replaced technocrats and (relatively) apolitical soldiers with Nazi zealots in positions of responsibility as the war turned against Germany. It did nothing at all for German war prospects and was generally counterproductive, but they could be counted upon to do exactly what Hitler wanted and brutalize a lot of the right kind of people in the process.

In line with the above this move would tie in directly with recent talk of conducting a national mass mobilization in Ukraine, without regard to age, sex, disability, etc. Simply masses of bodies being driven at the Russian lines in the hopes of staving off what will be a brutal peace by a few more months.

This suggests the Ukrainians may have cued in on the use of graveyard expansions by analysts as a proxy for AFU casualties. Easy enough to dig up existing ones rather than expand. This would also serve a secondary ideological purpose by physically destroying the memorials of Soviet and Imperial Russian soldiers who seem to be targeted in these latest moves.

I'd like to note that this is literally how you get cursed by the restless dead.

Unless I'm mistaken this is one of a very small number of privately owned MiG-23s in the United States. Thank God they maintained the ejection seats properly and they got good canopies.

Possibly the same two-seat model that's been featured on YouTube a number of times recently: https://youtu.be/hW_ujVX4a-0

Confirmed it was that specific MiG-23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrDWpQMRK2U

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Night!