A Ukrainian officer warns of the “collapse of the front” and the associated “fall of the defense of Pokrovsk.” – Julian Röepcke, Chief Editor Security Policy and Conflicts BILD.

https://x.com/julianroepcke/status/1925270224602910747?s=46

by Panthera_leo22

10 comments

  1. Translation below. Unfortunately the author only posts on X and hasn’t updated his BlueSky account in over 5 months.

    > Analyse

    > A Ukrainian officer warns of the “collapse of the front” and the associated “fall of the defense of Pokrovsk.”

    > ➡️ The situation (not only) here is critical for the Ukrainian army, as I have repeatedly reported in recent weeks.

    > ➡️ Especially in the area of ​​drones, the Russians have caught up extremely, if not even overtaken the Ukrainian defenders.

    > ➡️ Hundreds of fiber-optic drones are now deployed every day. There are almost no defenses against them.

    > ➡️ As a result, Ukraine is losing far more vehicles than it can replace. This makes logistics – as the officer writes – almost impossible.

    > ➡️ In addition, new Russian infantrymen are constantly arriving and, for the past month, numerous Russian armored vehicles are advancing together with civilian vehicles.

    > ➡️ The failure of the Western partners has led to Zelenskyy now being willing to accept any compromise.

    > ➡️ However, since the same failure also means that the Russian army has no reason whatsoever to rely on negotiations, the situation will continue to worsen

  2. Sounds really bad. Europe needs to buy all the vehicles and weapons Ukraine needs from existing US military stocks tomorrow. There is no time for Euro production or other half measures.

  3. Russia finally needs to be treated like Saddam in the ‘91 invasion of Kuwait.

    Send a coalition of European troops, planes, arms, tanks, everything and push them back to the border.

  4. Europe needs to get its head out of its ass here. US is a loss but I don’t know why Europe isn’t offering anything more substantial. Either they can’t, or won’t.

  5. Roepke has some credibility issues. I’d avoid quoting him.

  6. It’s the same Julian Röepcke who proclaimed “complete failure” of Kherson Offesive based on a photo of burning tank and wounded Ukrainian soldier “in some ditch” (it was a trench). He’s not know for accuracy of his reporting, to put it mildly.

  7. Julian Röepcke is not a good source , Try to avoid him.

  8. “Collapse of the Front” is obviously an exaggeration. Pokrovsk falling would be bad for that region but it’s not like it will cripple the whole front.

    We have been through this multiple times. A year of fighting over a specific city a hundred thousand Russian dead later, and eventually it is taken. People freak out. The Russians advance 10 km to the next set of trenches, repeat. Except now the Russians don’t have enough armored vehicles to advance with

  10. The BILD has about as much credibility as the piece of toilet paper you wiped your ass with this morning. Except the piece of toilet paper actually did something useful.

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