Real v. Invented Reality in Ukraine

by Stephen Lendman

Millions of Ukrainians are suffering needlessly because its Nazi-infested regime serves US interests and its own at the expense of peace, the rule of law and general welfare.

According to UN coordinator in Ukraine, Denise Brown, millions in the former nation-state face worsening hardships as winter approaches.

Russian airstrikes rendered much of the regime's power grid inoperable, leaving millions of Ukrainians without electricity, heat, tap water and sanitation.

Rolling blackouts are an every day thing.

In areas Brown visited since last month, she saw the effects of Ukraine's degraded energy infrastructure and disrupted supply chains, including empty grocery shelves and people suffering from cold weather without heat — conditions she called "overwhelming."

She saw many elderly people, single mothers, and others coping with disabilities struggling to survive.

"I see (widespread) stress and anxiety," she said, people "scream(ing) and cr(ying)" out for help not forthcoming as needed.

A "worst-case" humanitarian crisis looms if Ukraine's energy infrastructure collapses and cannot be restored any time soon.

Millions already crossed into Russia, Poland and other neighboring countries for safety not available internally.

Millions more were internally displaced.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), nearly 18 million Ukrainians need aid to survive.

Pre-Feb. 2022 before Russia's liberating SMO began, Ukraine's population was around 43 million.

With millions now in neighboring countries — 7.8 million, according to UNHCR in mid-November — numbers within Ukraine's borders likely total around 35 million and declining as movement abroad continues.

Yet as ordered by its US master, the  puppet Zelensky regime continues the futility of pursuing a lost cause, worsening conditions for long-suffering Ukrainians.

On Saturday at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, the Biden regime's so-called national intelligence director, Avril Haines, displayed her unfitness for any public position by delusional remarks like the following, saying:

Vladimir Putin is being shielded from "bad news" about Russia's SMO in Ukraine (sic).

"It's not not clear to us that he has a full picture of at this stage of how challenged" Russia's military is in Ukraine (sic).

"We have a fair amount of skepticism as to whether or not the Russians (are) prepared" for a Ukrainian counter-offensive next spring (sic).

And this perversion of reality:

"Our sense (sic) is that (Russia is) not capable of indigenously producing what they are expending" faster than it can be replaced (sic). 

Ignoring reality on the ground, Haines sounded delusional and out of touch with reality, including by expressing unfounded optimism "for Ukrainians" ahead.

Separately on Sunday, UK unintelligent intelligence falsely claimed that Russia's SMO is "failing significantly (sic)."

Claiming that "Russia (is) unlikely to achieve major battlefield successes in the next several months (sic)" is worlds apart from reality.

On Saturday, the Biden regime's so-called under secretary for political affairs, neocon hardliner Victoria Nuland — a figure notorious for handing out cookies during the US 2014 coup and "f..k the EU" infamy — was back in Kiev with puppet Zelensky to relay White House marching orders face-to-face and bash Vladimir Putin with perversions of reality like the following remarks:

He's "taken (Russia's SMO) to a new level of barbarism (sic), taking it into every single Ukrainian home as he tries to turn off the lights and water and achieves what he couldn't on the battlefield (sic)." 

"Ukraine is winning (sic)."

"Putin is losing (sic)."

The empire of lies and forever wars "support(s) you," she told US-installed puppet Zelensky.

Detached from reality, he likely believes what indisputable evidence reveals otherwise. 

Separately on Sunday, Russia's Defense Ministry reported the following:

In Donetsk, its forces "are successfully advancing in the vicinity of the (strategically important) town of Artyomovsk."

Liberating it from the scourge of Nazified occupation will be a major blow to hegemon USA-controlled Ukraine — what's highly likely in the coming days. 

And when occurs, MSM press agents for US/Western regimes will be hard-pressed to continue pushing the illusion about Ukrainian battlefield successes.

And as flows of US/Western weapons and munitions to Ukrainian Nazis diminish because of depleted stockpiles, the made-in-the-USA monster's military may collapse — where things are heading.

Hundreds of its troops are being killed or wounded daily.

On Monday, Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Russia sees no genuine shift of European policy for resolving things diplomatically.

Yet back home after meeting with the fake Biden in Washington, France's Macron called for negotiations to end months of conflict in Ukraine.

He knows, or should know, that Russia is defeating the scourge of Nazi-infested Ukraine.

What's going on won't likely end until Donbass is entirely liberated and the regime is demilitarized and deNazified — Russia's publicly stated goals.