This perverse government is a greater threat to the British way of life than Russia
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On the ground, Russian forces have seized small and medium sized towns like Kurakhove, Mala Tokmachka and Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region and are advancing on Lyman and Hulyaipole. These are key to the capture of larger towns and cities that make up Ukraine’s ‘fortress belt’, a heavily fortified defensive line. In the past month, around 230 square miles of territory has been captured, giving the Russians control of close on 80 per cent of the Donetsk region.
However, in spite of their superiority in artillery, drones and manpower, Russian forces continue to make heavy weather of the attack. So far, therefore, not too much has changed. Casualties continue to mount and, as ever, true figures are very hard to find. It is possible, however, that Russian losses amount to 1.6million personnel killed, wounded, missing and captured, along with some 11,000 tanks, 23,000 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), 35,000 guns and 800 fixed-wing and rotary aircraft.
Increasingly it appears that the Russians are transitioning to positional warfare, with much greater use of drones, all-terrain vehicles, long-range artillery and missiles and defensive structures. The possibility of any large-scale, rapid advances by mechanised forces is not in contention – and if it were, the threat from the Ukrainians’ masterly use of drone technology would rapidly halt it.
Ukrainian casualties are regularly understated, but are at least 450,000 killed, wounded, missing and captured, including civilians.
Inside Ukraine, the intensity of Russian strikes by missiles and drones is such that there is no time to recover and keep energy supplies flowing to homes and businesses. It’s the same old relentless grind.
The latest attempt to halt the war has been the 28-point plan proposed by Donald Trump’s team, endorsed by all European leaders along with Sir Keir Starmer and the EU Commission’s unelected apparatchiks. This plan includes security guarantees for Ukraine, the rebuilding of her armed forces, a European multinational force on the ground along with a US led ceasefire monitoring mechanism, and economic measures including investment and potential EU membership. The proposal also, implicitly, insists on the return of Ukrainian territory conquered by Russia.
Statements from the Kremlin, however, make it clear that the Russians will not accept this plan and in particular, there can be no negotiation on territory.
Any foreign force on the ground in Ukraine will certainly be attacked. Nuclear weapons continue to be mentioned by Russian sources in the context of defending by all available means what is now, in the Kremlin’s view, part of Mother Russia.
A recent outburst by the British Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, highlighted various increased defence spending commitments and made the case that we in the West should be ready for a war with Russia within five years.
Sorry, Air Chief Marshal, but you are barking up the wrong tree. There is no evidence to suggest, realistically, that Russia will attack Nato conventionally. The proof is that they are stuck in the mud facing one much smaller nation, Ukraine – where would they be against even the enfeebled defence forces of Nato? If they were to make such an attack and gain ground, the nuclear option is available to the West as well as to the Russians and we know very well that no Russian leader will contemplate the destruction of the sacred narod.
As for increased defence spending, well, where is it? There are no signs of any money actually being committed and, if it were committed, where will the people be found?
No, Air Chief Marshal, the enemies we should really fear are this government with its relentless attack on our way of life, and the mass of uncontrolled, frequently Muslim, immigrants that they encourage with handouts. The declared intention of these people is to take our lives, or property and our country. Will the woke Stasi that passes for our police force and the shadow of what was once a proud Army protect us? We shall see.
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