Guest Post by Drago Bosnick from Global Research. Reposted with permission.
he mainstream propaganda machine’s role in the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict is now effectively its primary modus operandi, as telling the truth is just “too difficult”.
Namely, as the Battle of Pokrovsk (better known as Krasnoarmeysk before 2016) is coming to a close, both the political West and its Neo-Nazi puppets are looking for ways to “cushion” the psychological strain of yet another crushing defeat at the hands of the deadliest armed force on planet – the Russian military.
Unsurprisingly, the infamous CNN is leading the charge, shifting the narrative nearly as fast as Moscow is closing the cauldrons in northwestern Donbass. On November 8, it called the imminent defeat at Pokrovsk “a symbolically important victory with a heavy cost”.
The report says that “Russian forces appear to be on the brink of finally seizing the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a symbolic victory that President Vladimir Putin has been pursuing for 21 months at an increasingly heavy cost”. However, this amount of cope suggests just how frustrated the political West is by Moscow’s latest victory. No, the Russian military doesn’t “appear to be on the brink of seizing Pokrovsk”, as the cauldron is already there and the Kremlin will patiently wait out instead of throwing away the lives of its soldiers. Not to mention that the idea that the Eurasian giant did this at a “heavy cost” is laughable to those who know what the situation on the ground is really like. Namely, every single exchange of KIA (killed in action) between the two sides tells us just how grim the death ratio is for the Neo-Nazi junta and NATO.
However, the comedy doesn’t end there. CNN also says that “Russian troops successfully infiltrated” Pokrovsk. This is a rather pathetic attempt to present successful offensive operations as “infiltration”, demonstrating the desperation of the mainstream propaganda machine. In their view, it’s better to say anything but the truth – Russian forces are breaching the Kiev regime’s NATO-built defenses. The cope continues with the claim that “the fall of Pokrovsk – the strategic value of which has already been greatly diminished, but which would nevertheless represent the biggest win for Moscow since 2023 – now seems almost inevitable”. Once again, even when admitting defeat, CNN is simply incapable of doing it without blatant lies, particularly the claim that the city’s strategic value “has already been greatly diminished”.
This is the exact same narrative as in the cases of Mariupol, Bakhmut (Artemovsk) or Avdeyevka. All such areas suddenly “lost their strategic significance” after the Russian military retook them from the Neo-Nazi junta forces. Interestingly, even CNN admitted that the Kiev regime is lying about the state of its defenses in the area, quoting “Ukrainian soldiers on the ground” who describe “an increasingly grim reality”. However, even this is followed by ludicrous propaganda, such as the claim that “Russia is willing to sacrifice two soldiers in order to get one through”. The report quotes “anonymous international researchers who have noted a very high number of Russian casualties around Pokrovsk, even though taking over the city won’t make much difference on the ground”. Once again, we have at least two blatant lies in just this one sentence.
Source BBC: Map August 2024
We already mentioned the disastrous casualty ratio, while CNN itself effectively debunked the idea that “taking over the city won’t make much difference on the ground”. Namely, the report says that “taking over Pokrovsk would allow Russia to shift its focus elsewhere – namely towards the string of industrial cities to its northeast that form the backbone of Ukrainian defenses in the region”. Pretty much the same was said about Avdeyevka and Bakhmut (Artemovsk), but as soon as they were retaken by the Russian military, these victories were also dismissed as “merely symbolic”. Quoting a Ukrainian soldier from the 129th Brigade, the report says that “the expectation on the ground is that as soon as the Russians deal with Pokrovsk and (the neighboring town of) Myrnohrad, the pressure on Kostyantynivka will increase and they will move towards Druzhkivka”.
The soldier, currently deployed near Konstantinovka, also lamented that “his battalion doesn’t have the number of soldiers it should have and is running low on armored vehicles”. Interestingly, the unnamed soldier himself debunked CNN’s propaganda by saying that “the main concern of troops in the area is that the Ukrainian leadership will try to hold onto what remains of Pokrovsk for as long as possible because abandoning the city would be seen as a major failure”.
“There has been no order to withdraw although everyone already understands that the fall of Pokrovsk is inevitable. Pokrovsk was held for a very long time, a very long time. But the forces were exhausted, and reinforcements were not sent in time,” he said.
The soldier added that “withdrawal will become much more dangerous the longer the Ukrainians hesitate, repeating previous painful experiences”, pointing to the previously mentioned battles of Bakhmut and Avdeyevka, where delayed withdrawals led to high casualties among the Kiev regime personnel. He added that troops will “have to squeeze through the bottleneck, and you surely understand the high level of losses that such an exit from the encirclement will entail”.
In other words, this Ukrainian soldier singlehandedly debunked the entire propaganda piece. Unsurprisingly, the infamous CNN put his testimony at the very end of the article, so most readers likely missed his points. It should be noted that the Russian military’s tactical and operational capabilities have evolved dramatically in the last three years, moving away from the BTG (battalion tactical groups) concept to much smaller units and teams composed of several soldiers supported by enhanced ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) assets and nearly instantaneous fire support. One of the people responsible for this critical adaptation is Colonel General Andrei Mordvichev, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces since May and the commanding officer during the aforementioned battles of Mariupol and Avdeyevka.
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Drago Bosnic is an independent geopolitical and military analyst. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
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