Ukraine to Retake Lost Territory?

by Stephen Lendman

Puppet Zelensky is a buffoon, an embarrassing caricature of a leader, worlds apart from the real thing.

Serving US/Western interests and his own at the expense of ordinary Ukrainians, his daily hyperventilating fell flat long ago.

In the battle for Ukraine, the empire of lies and forever wars on invented enemies won round one with the Obama/Biden regime's 2014 Maidan coup in Kiev — installing Nazified rule as planned.

Russia won round two — virtually straightaway after its liberating SMO began last Feb.

At the same time, US-dominated NATO regimes can prolong conflict by pouring weapons and munitions into Ukraine — as long as the US-installed regime can deploy cannon fodder to frontline areas for Russian precision weapons to eliminate.

Once again sounding delusional by ignoring reality on the ground, Zelensky said the following over the weekend:

"We will not give away the south to anyone (sic)."

"We will return everything that's ours and the sea will be Ukrainian and safe."

And this turning reality on its head by Zelensky, ignoring the regime's defeated military, its rank and file members virtually acknowledging it, saying:

"Their mood is confident (sic)."

"Looking into their eyes it is obvious that they all do not doubt our victory (sic)."

"We will definitely restore everything that was destroyed (sic)."

"Russia does not have as many missiles as our people have the desire to live (sic)."

At this time, Lugansk is fully liberated from Nazified occupation, Donetsk to follow.

Russia controls former Ukrainian territory in the industrialized and resource-rich east and southeast.

Their people will decide by referendum whether to join the Russian Federation or establish independent republics.

In most areas, the latter is more likely than the former.

Territory liberated by Russian forces and Donbass freedom fighters is no longer part of Ukraine.

Nor will its degraded and defeated military regain it.

Separately on Sunday, Ukraine's so-called war minister Reznikov hyperventilated in similar fashion as Zelensky.

Maintaining the illusion of preparations to retake lost territory by the regime's defeated military, he said the following:

Puppet Zelensky "order(ed) the military chief to draw up plans (sic).'

"The general staff (sic) is doing its homework (sic)."

"This is my job."

"I'm writing letters to counterparts in partner countries."

"The generals talk about why we need this kind of weaponry and then we get the political decisions."

"We need more, quickly, to save the lives of our soldiers" — what the regime and its US master don't give a damn about. 

"Each day we're waiting for howitzers, we can lose a hundred soldiers (sic)."

The human toll of killed, wounded, disabled, surrendered or deserted is multiples greater than Reznikov's fiction.

According to analyst Larry Johnson:

"Russia is not telling the full story of the devastation (its forces) are unleashing on Ukraine's military."

"But the (demilitarization of Ukraine) goal set by Putin…is being realized."

It's ongoing by tracking locations of Ukrainian troops and US/Western weapons et al supplied them — then striking them with powerful precision-guided weapons.

Russia's Defense Ministry issues daily reports of its progress on the ground like the following on Sunday, saying:

"Over the past day tactical aviation, the rocket and artillery forces struck 17 Ukrainian command posts, four platoons of Grad MLRS and, in the area of Konstantinovka, two hangars concealing US-made M777 howitzers that were used to shell Donetsk residential districts." 

"Also struck were artillery positions in 42 areas as well as Ukrainian troops and equipment in 143 areas."

And this:

"As part of the fighting, a platoon of multiple launch rocket systems Uragan in the area of Konstantinovka, a platoon of multiple launch rocket systems Grad in the area of Dzerzhinsk and two artillery platoons of Gyatsint-B 152 mm howitzers were destroyed at firing positions in the area of the settlement Novgorodskaya of the Donetsk People's Republic."

And this:

Russia's "Black Sea Fleet is using (highly effective) X-31 guided missiles."

When what remains of Ukraine's warplanes, its helicopters and UAVs are spotted airborne, Russia forces eliminate them with precision accuracy.

Yet Zelensky, Reznikov and other regime officials maintain the fiction of its defeated military's "determination" to fight and defeat overpowering Russian forces.

And this Reznikov fiction:

DeNazified Lugansk was a "tactical loss, (not a) strategic defeat (sic)."

Claiming that it'll be retaken is delusional.

So is saying to the US/West: 

"Give us the tools. We will finish the job (sic)."

Kiev has lots of cannon fodder for overpowering Russian military strength to degrade and eliminate.

If the US-installed regime continues its pursuit of a lost cause no matter the human toll, a generation of Ukrainian youths could be lost.