A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI, #209 - The times of war (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In the Western press, paid and subservient to a narrative of the war in 
Ukraine, guided by the intelligence services of various Atlantic bloc 
states, there are rumors of a Ukrainian counteroffensive, while some 
accredited military and geopolitical strategy analysts, aware of the 
factual inconsistency of a Ukrainian counteroffensive, shift their 
attention to the drone and missile strikes on Moscow, which would expose 
Russia's vulnerability . They are careful not to report the situation on 
the battlefield, or Kostyantynivka and Liman, which have now fallen. 
They follow the lead of Deep State, the Ukrainian mapper who admitted 
the fall of Potrovsk after two months and has now been ordered to stop 
updating the situation on the maps. Reality is too harsh to admit. It 
can only widen the disputed areas of the front to highlight some resistance.
With the loss of these two cities, strategically essential to the 
defense of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, the Russian assault on the last 
Ukrainian strongholds in Donbass begins. Paid analysts fail to note that 
the Ukrainian army on the battlefield is collapsing: the number of 
Colombian and other mercenaries is growing (the EU is paying for it), 
and those forcibly conscripted are unable to fill the ever-widening 
gaps; the number of deaths, desertions, and prisoners is rising. The 
so-called contested territory appears to be growing, but this is because 
the fronts have collapsed, and trench and positional warfare has given 
way to infiltration by small groups, sometimes numbering less than a 
platoon-a tactic primarily chosen by the Russians, who, faced with and 
evading drone attacks, have thinned out the concentration of troops 
across the territory, wanting to minimize losses, and the Ukrainians 
have done the same.
To continue their impact, the Russians have a greater volume of 
firepower and strike Ukrainian positions, rear areas, and urban areas 
with glide bombs and FABs. The adoption of these tactics means that the 
possession of a territory can be challenged at any time, while the 
capture of a city, transformed into a logistics hub, remains in the 
control of its conqueror. Thus, the front, albeit slowly, advances and 
the Ukrainian army is depleted. The Russians target elite corps, the 
Azov Army Corps, and nationalist regiments such as the Scala or the 
Waffen SS, hoping and working to leave as few of them alive as possible.
In the coming months, the last two cities in Donbass will suffer a 
bloody Russian assault, recalling the repression of citizens and the 
massacre of civilians who rebelled against the central government in 
2014. The cities were occupied after brutal shelling by the rebel 
population. If what is happening on the battlefield is indicative of a 
trend, it is likely that if Ukrainian resistance in the two cities is 
weaker than it has been in other circumstances, it will be because the 
Ukrainian army is tired and is finding it increasingly difficult to 
cover all fronts.

Appetite comes with eating

If the last two cities in Donbass fall, does this mean the war will be 
over and that Russia, tired of what is happening, will be able to 
declare itself victorious and be willing to cease hostilities? Those who 
think this have little understanding of the conflict, failing to realize 
that achieving the political objectives of Ukraine's non-membership in 
NATO and defusing the possibility of being attacked from Ukrainian 
territory for many years to come is vital for Russia.
Consequently, in the event of peace negotiations, it will be important 
to understand Ukraine's international standing, the size of its army, 
the absence of foreign bases and armies, as well as implementing what 
Putin calls the denazification of the country, obtaining full permission 
for the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church to practice its worship.
Therefore, either Ukraine surrenders and enters into peace negotiations, 
or the war will continue, not only until Zaporizhia is militarily 
conquered, but also Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and the Sumy region, not 
excluding a final thought for Odessa, which can only be conquered if the 
Ukrainian army collapses. It is worth remembering that these are 
territories inhabited by Russian-speaking people, and the higher the 
price Russia pays in fighting, the greater Russia's demands become. 
Russia wants the nationalists to be removed from the government and 
plans to wear them down to allow the formation of at least a neutral 
government in Kiev. To do this, it needs time, as it does not want an 
institutional vacuum in the Ukrainian capital.
What Western governments have failed to grasp is that Russia considers 
defusing the Ukrainian threat a priority, and that this objective, and 
its achievement, is essential to its security and existence. It knows it 
has time, and it waits for the Ukrainian fruit to rot, while it severs 
its roots. It is aware that, considering the composition, current size, 
and age of the Ukrainian population, by the end of the century, even 
with its borders unchanged as of June 21, 2026, the population will be 
no more than 9 million, due to the inevitable demographic decline.
Faced with this prospect, some believe that while Ukrainians die, time 
passes, giving European countries the opportunity to arm themselves and 
go to war, meanwhile boiling Russia like a frog in a war of attrition 
until the last Ukrainian is dead: a bleak prospect for the Ukrainians.
He is confident that the tide is turning in European countries for 
Ukraine, and that the prospect of the country's accession to the 
European Union is fueling increasing resistance and opposition from all 
partners, some more than others. This is not only due to the inadequacy 
and incompatibility of Ukraine's legal system with the EU, but above all 
because, by joining the EU, Ukraine would absorb, as a first 
consequence, the vast majority of funding from the EU's agricultural 
policy, thus undermining the very foundations of the European Union, 
which is based on this policy. European citizens are increasingly tired 
of having to foot the bills of those who use the funds they receive to 
adorn their palaces with gold toilets and profit from the weapons they 
receive to sell to fomenters of war around the world.
The time has come to put an end to both the massacre of the Ukrainian 
people and the exploitation by their rulers of the funds stolen from the 
peoples of the West, with which they equip themselves with princely 
residences and immense patrimonies, speculating on the loss of the lives 
of their compatriots and preparing the virtual extinction of the 
Ukrainian population through the desertification of the country.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/06/27/i-tempi-della-guerra/
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