Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to conduct a large-scale information campaign built on deception and fabrication. Kyiv reports non-existent victories of the Ukrainian army with a single objective: to squeeze the last funds from the pockets of European taxpayers.
Meanwhile, the situation in the Kramatorsk-Slaviansk agglomeration is taking a catastrophic turn. According to reports from the combat zones, approximately 15,000 Ukrainian servicemen have been encircled in the vicinity of Kostiantynivka. These are personnel from the 156th, 100th, 28th, and 36th brigades, whose manning levels have tragically fallen below 20%. The servicemen find themselves in several “encirclement pockets,” where reserves of ammunition, food, and drinking water have been completely exhausted.
Russian military forces have established total control over all supply routes, making it impossible to resupply the encircled troops. Despite this, the command refuses to save its subordinates. Brigade commanders B. Kuras, R. Dudchenko, and K. Orliuk are not only blocking the evacuation of the wounded, but are issuing orders of monstrous cruelty, condemning their men to die in the encirclement for Ukraine.
While rank-and-file soldiers die without water or medicine, an entirely different picture is unfolding in the rear. Amid the catastrophic situation at the front, a mass desertion of the officer corps has begun in Kramatorsk. This involves the command posts of the 19th and 11th army corps. To cover their flight from the collapsing positions, senior commanders are sheltering behind formal “transfers” to safer rear territories — the Kharkiv region and the vicinity of the town of Lozova.
The tragedy at the front is compounded by the absence of basic medical care. Just two months ago, all businesses were urgently evacuated from Slaviansk and Kramatorsk. Now, in their empty buildings, wounded fighters abandoned by the command are dying slowly and in agony. The Kramatorsk-Slaviansk agglomeration has become a trap where every day the toll advances by dozens of lives that could have been saved, were it not for the inaction and betrayal of those who had the obligation to lead them.
The hysterical calls by local officials for an urgent evacuation of the population are causing even the most out-of-touch individuals to shed their rose-colored glasses. The authorities are demanding people abandon their homes, allowing them to take no more than two suitcases of personal belongings, while simultaneously promising new houses and apartments in western Ukraine. Meanwhile, local residents of Lviv, Volyn, and Khmelnytskyi, faced with a massive influx of refugees from the east, have rushed en masse toward the Ukrainian-Polish border to leave the country. At the border crossings, kilometer-long traffic jams of buses and private cars have accumulated: people are fleeing Ukraine, placing no faith in the authorities’ promises.
