BBC correspondent, Quentin Sommerville, provides a heart rending and devastating report on the scope and scale of Ukraine’s war casualties. The Western media has tried to ignore this video and, after you watch it, you’ll understand why.
This video was posted last Tuesday (29 August), which means the video and script were done at least two days prior to that. Apart from the quality of the reporting, the piece rises to film art, particularly the opening segment.
The companion article, ‘Dying by the dozens every day’ – Ukraine losses climb, is posted at the BBC website. For some reason the BBC did not link to the video. Given the BBC’s relationship with the British Government I think it is fair to conclude that some in the British establishment can read the writing on the wall and realize that Ukraine is not only running out of soldiers; it is running out of time.
Sommerville writes:
There has been a dramatic rise in Ukraine’s number of dead, according to new estimates by unnamed US officials. . . .
Ukraine gives no official toll of its war dead – the Ukrainian armed forces have reiterated that their war casualty numbers are a state secret – but Margo knows the losses are huge.
The figures remain classified. But US officials, quoted by the New York Times, recently put the number at 70,000 dead and as many as 120,000 injured. It is a staggering figure, from an armed forces estimated at only half a million strong. The UN has recorded 9,177 civilian deaths to date. . . .
The reality of the scale of casualties is laid bare in Ukraine’s cemeteries.
In the late afternoon sun around Krasnopilske cemetery in Dnipro, the heads of the sunflowers hang heavy – an honour-guard for the freshly dug graves that spread ever closer to the perimeter. . . .
The yellow and blue of Ukrainian flags whip above each grave in the gentle breeze – there are hundreds of them. Each is a marker in the great tide of loss that sweeps daily across eastern and southern battlefields, filling cemeteries in towns and villages the length and breadth of Ukraine.
A year and a half into this war, few families here have been left untouched by grief. . . .
Sommerville’s Ukrainian sources tell him that the Russians are suffering far more casualties. That is a lie, but Sommerville is reporting what he is being told. If Russia had casualties like this there is no way Putin’s Government could quash the social media reports from grieving parents, siblings and spouses.
Since this report was prepared nine days ago, at least 7,000 more Ukrainian soldiers have died in combat. That equals the number of KIA American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan during sixteen years of fighting. Helps put in perspective the savagery of the combat underway in Ukraine.
“There has been a dramatic rise in Ukraine’s number of dead, according to new estimates by unnamed US officials…. ”
“Sommerville’s Ukrainian sources tell him that the Russians are suffering far more casualties… ”
A dramatic rise? The lying, dim-wit puppets pretend that there was no drama for a year and a half – concerning the number of Ukrainian deaths at the front; only now there is drama. Disgusting twaddle.
Far more (Russian) casualties? The lying fellow is expected to use logic and data, in his reporting – but such reporting elements cannot be found in individuals that sell their wares to the highest bidder, in presstitutes.
However the approaching denouement does not allow for the grossest lies to be peddled away for much longer, so that a smoke-and-mirrors scenery is being developed for the final scene.
Easy to debate the numbers killed but it deflects from the real problem Ukraine finding enough men fill the ranks.
It’s much harder to hide the lack of new recruits, than it is to hide the deaths of thousands.
As soon as the powers-that-be finish fighting to the “last Ukrainian,” they’ll pivot and start spending the peoples of other eastern European nations instead. Who’s next up? Probably Poland, but estimates vary. The main point here is that the blood-thirsty neo-con/neo-lib types promoting this needless conflict never do their own fighting and dying, and since they have no skin in the game, they have no incentive to quit the carnage.
The slim volume written by then recently-retired Marine General S.D. Butler – a two-time Medal of Honor recipient whose military credentials were peerless – entitled “War is a Racket,” has never been more timely, even though it is nearly ninety years old. It is still in print, and reads like it was ripped from today’s headlines.
The blame for all this distant violence and bloodshed, widespread carnage and destruction, hatred and depravity, lies squarely with the vermin who fester along the banks of the Potomac.
The Executive Mansion has been turned into a squatters’ camp for political misfits and malcontents whose primary job is to prop up a demented ignorant gulpin as a leader and hide behind him as he ( in his own past words ) is instructed to do and say what he is told, and who reliably does so as long as he and his vile family get a cut of the payola.
NATO has been a money laundering hoax since the day it was hatched in 1947, no wonder they can’t fight, they were never set up to fight, it was all a mirage. They are guttersnipes who only attack target populations unable to defend themselves, like any pompous schoolyard bully. But like the bully, they eventually went too far and punched the wrong one. Now they are getting mauled as they requested.
Those who claim to be our defenders have turned the Pentagon into a chicken coop, full of cowardly and venal officers bartering foreign and domestic military and civilian lives, weapons transfers and purchases, and of course enriching themselves with the incalculable heaps of payola that pack the gravy train.
Military fops abuse servicemen like chips on a gambling table without regard for the domestic family and social disasters that follow, because they direct the destruction from the safety of distant bunkers or even air conditioned conference rooms. Then they and their MSM concubines crow about this or that Russian general or high ranking officer who gets killed in battle even as American and Western officers are cowering under their bunks until the smoke clears, or dining out and cavorting with the local talent, when Russian officers – like the Romans – lead their men into battle. They couldn’t even manage a planned pullout from Kabul after being there for 20 years, those plans should have been in place or at least in draft for 6 months. They bungled the whole thing as usual, got 14 Marines killed, and armed the Tals with modern donated weapons. Is there a bigger collection of morons anywhere? A squad of bored Chechens could capture the Pentagon and all they would really have to do is wave a checkbook and a few rainbow flags.
Then of course there is the most repugnant nest of all, the State Department, where more psychopathic misfits and malcontents infest every hall, but make things that much worse since they sport a diplomatic port manteau to cover the seething hatred, pure greed, and fathomless ignorance that ignited this completely avoidable war in the first place.
The CIA has nothing on them, they are just socially stunted serial killers on standby, playing cards, creating financial scams, or working on current or new Mexican cartel deals while waiting for an assignment.
Potomac inhabitants are doing this entire nation a massive disservice at best, and at worst dragging us all down into the iniquitous sewer where they dwell, and by abusing us and our assets directly and indirectly they will have sent millions to early and violent deaths by the time their manufactured violence stops. They have created for us hundreds of millions of new and permanent enemies, they misappropriate money on a regular basis and the IRS is awol of course – too busy tormenting ordinary taxpayers – they cannot govern domestically – primarily because they cannot think – and they have initiated the unraveling of our society through incompetence, neglect, avarice, ignorance, and group psychopathy.
At some point these grifters and government lounge lizards will have to be flushed out of the Augean Stables – or bought off to leave, we all know they will do absolutely anything for money – and replaced with competent and unowned leaders, or this country would be better off simply seceding into smaller and better governed areas.
Don’t forget who the vermin on the Potomac work for, the British Crown and it’s banksters.
I have good news and bad news.
First the good- there is a great opportunity coming during which all of the evil doers can be eliminated while everyone is distracted.
And the bad news- Madmax situation is on the horizon. “Everything” collapse within the next 20 months.
Madmax is evil hunting time- when everyone is distracted by staying alive.
A beautifully-penned invective, if I may say so.
Stop holding back, tell us what you really think!
Awesome rant.
I saw the video, and mostly what it makes me think is that the BBC is choosing to defend the wrong side (not that the non-Nazi Ukies who buy into the propaganda should be blamed).
And also, that if it weren’t for the US using Nazis to for a 2014 coup, none of this would have happened.
The US and its Western vassals have been dealing death around the globe for decades. And not one of the “little people’s” lives – the dead in this video for example – mean a single thing to people like Victoria Nuland or George Bush or the globalists above them like Soros.
I’ve seen the enemy… and the enemy is US.
The bodies do mean a great deal to Soros, because they are the cheapest money can buy:
“Right now, Russian imperialism can be stopped cheaply, because American soldiers are not dying.” ~ President Andrzej Duda’s
Toward a New World Order: The Future of NATO Open Society Foundations, November 1, 1993
“Incidentally, the combination of manpower from Eastern Europe with the technical capabilities of NATO would greatly enhance the military potential of the Partnership because it would reduce the risk of body bags for NATO countries, which is the main constraint on their willingness to act.”
https://www.georgesoros.com/1993/11/01/toward-a-new-world-order-the-future-of-nato/‘
Back during Soro’s childhood, If you remember Schindler’s List there was a quote in it about “Polish workers costing more than Jewish workers.” Now that Soros is in the driver’s seat, he has reversed the value of people, where Ukrainians are the cheapest. It is all quite economical, you just need to round up the Ukrainians on trucks, collect them at a central point and then ship them to the Donbass in box cars for “special treatment” in front of Russian guns. Soros might have to spend a little money on NAZI Azov battalion blocking units, but they can be purchased cheaply as well, with booze and drugs, then sent to the front themselves after they have outlived their usefulness. And then “little touches” matter as well, like signs posted around the Ukrainian trenchworks that say things like “Shooting Sets You Free”. (Schießen macht frei.)
To (((Grygori Schwartz))) and his fellow Khazar Tribesmen, the hundreds of thousands of Dead White Men (and Women) are a “Feature, Not a Bug” in the War of the Eternal, Infernal Parasites against Mankind.
Precisely, and likewise to his fellow occupying the Ukraine presidency, and to Nuland, Blinken and their fellows in the US and elsewhere.
Another Pogo fan!
FYI: In today’s interview on Euronews, US Ambasador to the European Union (that would be Mark Gitenstein), has argued with a smirk that Russia has “already lost” the war and that Putin out of desperation is now talking with the North Korean dictator to purchase weapons because the Russian army has been degraded to a “19th-century level.”
Yeah, you heard that right.
So if that’s true why doesn’t the American Empire just directly enter the war? I mean, even the American military should be able to defeat a 19th century Russia, right? Even the American military that got its head handed to it by the Taliban?
Russian territory is also slowly degrading to 19th century level.
In a previous post on casualties not too long ago, Larry mentioned that the leadership in 404, and by implication their OTAN controllers, were war criminals. Yes, but that was too mild. Murders, premeditated, homicidal, psychopaths, what is the word that would adequately describe the insane tactics. I don’t know.
Press-ganging men off the streets, pulling them from their homes. No real military training, no standardized equipment, drugging them and running them into minefields, across open terrain, with no air support, inadequate artillery, no armour -the armour has been already destroyed, over and over, and over again. Murder squads stationed to kill anyone who retreats.
Have the ukronazis and their enablers surpassed the original deutscher nazi wehrmacht?
Welcome to the Demonic Nihilistic Ordnung!
Ineresting timez …
It’s genocide of Slavs, yet again. Slavs have always been in the way of various Napoleons and Hitlers, preventing them from ruling the World. Sadly, nothing new here.
As ordinary young men of the Ukraine are fed to the meat grinder a select group that pushes them in is kept in reserve. In effect Slav is killing Slav. How convenient!
Somehow this all makes me think of genocidal eugenics as in West wishes to gain land without certain unwanted people. Those lusting for possession of the land salivate on the safe sidelines in expectation.
Mr and Mrs European West therefore have to be victorious in order to be able to write the history of this struggle. Every day Russia diminishes Mr and Mrs West’s chances of victory the more likely their motive will become common knowledge.
I just wrote similar thing before seeing this comment. To the Western elites, Slavs are like Native Americans. They want to kill them all, erase their culture, and take all the lands. They are even making modern day equivalent of infected blankets, with specially designed viruses.
You’ve obviously ingested too much ‘cocain’-sky…
To begin with, “native americans’ , aren’t. Secondarily, the second wave of White migration – the original batches of Celts and Danes on this continent were genocided by the invading ‘indians’ – tried and tried to bring civilisation to the ‘natives’ and were thanked by murder, rape and torture. read some actual history clown.
Stop blaming “western elites’ ; until you understand that the ‘people’ behind this are not Western man atall, but indeed are originally (((eastern))), you will never understand nor will you be taken seriously by anyone with an IQ higher than their belt size.
My stuff is mild. I need to try whatever you are on.
Of course , ” read some actual history”,…. and then mic drop… any reading suggestions to back up your version of U.S. history professor? where prey tell are these voluminous books of alternative history and infinite words of wisdom that have been kept from the 300+ million that you invoke? or will you simply point to some cheaply made website that spouts fecal matter with no footnotes, or sources to back up their claim?
Genocided? Dude, you are spinning history that is totally inaccurate. Where do you come up with this crap?
70000 Ukrainian dead?
…yeah right.
It’s at least 5 times that number.
Er, Gents, please forgive me if already posted, but Andrei Maryanov, recently returned from a visit to Moscow and environs, reports that Kyiv is building, on its outskirts, a National Cemetery larger than Arlington, that will accommodate 600,000 gravesites.
This is in addition to numerous towns adding many many, and morgues ordering civilian families to collect and store in body bags at home their deceased, and the un-counted number of dead and buried now being exhumed to make room for war dead.
Alas . . .
The girl who lost here husband then goes and joins the military, looking for suicide or revenge? With such a horrendous body count we think that enough would be enough and peace a better option, perhaps though we ignore the feelings for revenge as they are not our people. One wonders though if a point is reached where that revenge instead gets redirected at the government that created the mess.
That time is yet to come.
With such a horrendous body count they are way too deep into sunk cost fallacy territory.
Emotional , dramatic and fake.
Influencer opportunity.( ID the missing family member, photos of him giving her a hug.)
Funny that…BBC BS vid MOAR propaganda.
They voted for the penis piano man. Cheered for war as they marched with Nazi battalions, waving flags eager for the slaughter of Russian men, women and children. (Still killing kids, with all kind of banded weapons.)
Whoops……Funny that, ….. Entire generation of Ukrainian young men dead, mangled and missing and a lot more to join them. 500,000 and rising.
10 out of 10 for the propaganda….BBC, you still got talent.
If or when war comes to Silly Britain, the BBC HQ has gotta be on the first strike list.
The cemeteries and bodies are not fake. Explain yourself.
Never mention anything about bodies being fake, GOT IT.
SO ..Re read….Quote..” Emotional ,dramatic and fake, ID the missing family member.” End quote.
BBC fake emotional presentation.
That is the explanation, don’t rush to judgement.
Censor as you wish. I’m out.
Close the door after you.
Mr. Johnson (as myself) thought you were referring directly to his article, so chill dude. No one is censoring you.
Surly, you can state your opinion/ideas/whatever in a way that is not confusing to others. Language can be tricky.
Deaths are real, but video is still BBC propaganda BS. Not art, nor pledge for peace.
Agree, but I wanted to note that Penis Piano Playing President rolls so nicely off the tongue. And it never fails to provoke a reaction in normies.
As an aside, I find that propaganda is easier to spot when I focus on the choice of words instead of what the point is. Emotionally charged word choice is a dead giveaway.
Thank you for putting this up. I can’t imagine someone that considers themselves a journalist that doesn’t bother to find out the real deat toll. What will happen when the delusional find out the dead and wounded are closer to a million?
blackrock doesn’t care. Nor Billy Soft, vanguard, hell no. America, demonstrating Ukraine can only be the second most corrupt country in the world at best.
The talk goes on. Russia is bad and is killing “millions” Ukraine is bad for continuing the war, sending millions to die or be maimed. Or the reverse, depending on the writer. When will someone write a piece on exactly what should be done? Should Russia give up and return home and say enough is enough (Not going to happen under VIP) Should Ukraine capitulate and hand over the keys to the country and fugetaboutit? I am seriously interested in a viable solution to this bloody war. In any conceivable solution, one side wins and one side louses.
KievStar, one of Ukraine top mobile telephony providers, recently published there were 400K “heroes forever offline” among their subscribers.
the operator denies that the ad came from him: https://www.facebook.com/kyivstar/posts/pfbid053gjNpHNASbLifxJoPPC3Zdw6X6NtauYRqaP9pq52Uyg9oxsnaA4mfXQpaAm1kxtl
Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland & the Neocons will continue escalating regardless of the carnage:
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the
The Neocons & Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland will unfortunately continue escalating regardless of the carnage:
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the
There is a Nobel Peace Prize on offer for anyone who can figure out an acceptable end to this war to all parties
The images of those cemeteries are to be put right aside pictures of the Svoboda/Pravi Sektor march with the following legend : “a few moments later”.
Many red and black flags of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army – the fascist nationalists – among the blue and yellow.
Impossible there are no Nazi’s in Ukraine as the Main stream media says (Sarcasm)
Sputnik is reporting 20,000 Ukrainians have had limbs amputated. I don’t think this link will work: https://sputnikglobe.com/20230905/ukrainian-medical-services-struggle-to-treat-more-than-20000-amputee-soldiers-1113132278.html
Meanwhile, down under.
1h of blatantly BS, from a very British Army officer.
Richard Iron, Australian Institute of International Affairs
A Strategic Analysis of the Russo-Ukraine War: An Update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB-f05-vyjo
I forgot about referencing another Kool-aid serving, referenced by Richard Iron on his BS.
Michael Kofman, an Ukrainian living in the US since the 90s. Another Georgetown University “political scientist” turned “military analyst”, working for one of the numerous federally-funded nonprofit research and analysis corporations.
https://warontherocks.com/2023/09/perseverance-and-adaptation-ukraines-counteroffensive-at-three-months/
After considering, I think the video was an op. Not the graves portion, but the rest. Kind of like the “White Helmets” was all an op, even though there was actual death around.
From the flowers at the very beginning, to the singing female (who sounded almost EXACTLY like the singing in the movie “Gladiator” regarding death), to the “model-type” who imagines that a proper legacy for her husband’s death would be to keep her “agreement” with her husband to join the Ukie-Nazis in the trench if he got killed (what kind of husband would agree to his wife being raped by Ukie-Nazis?). Really ? Doubtful at the very least.
But why would the BBC do this ? Well, they’re the UK gov’t. The same one that runs the MI6 (or is the other way around?) which created the White Helmets. I believe it’s a Hollywood production meant to work up more Ukies (non-Nazis) to join up in the hopes all they have to do is spend a little time flying drones “near” (but not “in”) some danger (would the BBC reporter really be very near a missile strike area?); and oh yes, don’t worry, there will also be some “model-type” grieving women in the trenches with you, so you’ll be all set, future-recruits !
Didn’t the White Helmets win an Oscar ? Seems like this video might be the same type of thing… that is, marketing on the backs of the graves caused by the West.
Bingo!
The truth is the first casualty of war.
I believe thats the famous quote? Please correct me if wrong.
I have heard it suggested, and believe it true, well over 100k dead Ukies. 500k with civilian deaths.
There was a (London) Times article on Ukrainian deaths a few days ago and 2023 production of a film on the Ukrainian WW2 holocaust shown on Monday (which must have been approved for showing a couple of weeks or more before).
All very unusual, all of which should have been published a year or more ago.
Curious.
I’ve read numerous articles such as this. The Ukies are losing big time. As to the Media the Ukies have been advancing on Russian for years and winning countless battles, yet the Russian troops, armor and artillery still sit behind a defensive belt the likes that we haven’t seen since the Battle of Kursk during World War Two. Yep the Ukies are winning. winning more grave sites and memorial flags and tears of their families. And for what??? To make some scum like the Biden Family and their cabal friends even more wealthy??? Yeah, thousands dead hundreds of thousands wounded, maimed, disfigured, and shell shocked. Yep the Ukrainians have been advancing on Moscow for months and the War still drags on. Kinda reminds me of Hitlers Wehrmacht always advancing on the Eastern front against Stalins Red Armies.
Mr. Johnson, if you allow me the personal reference and off- topic point , I am observing that you have somehow irregular pigmentation of your skin.
I had this problem during some past years, thinking even that I had developed vitiligo.
After hearing from the alternative doctors during the “pandemic” about the importance of Vitamine D for the immune system, but also for a healthy skin, healthy bones, plus many other important functions of the body, even for a good mood, I made a determination analysis this year to find that I had an insuficiency of this vitamine, probably because of the weather here, and for sure because the pharma industry scare us in such a way to not expose any centimeter of our skin ever to the sunlight without a blocker.
I started to get suplements and the irregular pigmentation problem dissapeared.
Also it is important to have your skin exposed to the sunlight, without any blocker, especially during the central hours of the day, for at least 20 minutes daily, if possible ( you have it easy in Florida…)
It is the pharma industry who gets our health systems forbidding Vit. D determinations and correction of low levels, since its intake could end a lot of health problems, and thus waste phrama business.
You do not have to publish this message.
I wish you the best because of your efforts on achieving peace and forward some truth.
Terribly sad, but the rational thinking is that Putin has, for 8 long years, tried to alert the West about what was happening in the East Ukraine and NOBODY paid attention.
Unfortunately, the lords of war, supported by a corrupt media, still spread to the world that Russia is evil e Ukraine is a “Saint” in this story. Zelensky is a stupid. Never existed a single chance of UKR win a war against a military superpower like Russia. He was used and is paying the bill with the blood of his people. The hell will receive him with glory.
The little criminal dickweed, Zelansky, is not the root cause of the White Meat Grinder. You eliminate a noxious weed by destroying its root:
Judea delenda est.
Kudos, Larry, for surviving the frequent interruptions by Judge Napolitano. He’s almost as rude as Glenn Beck.
The tragedy is that the Ukrainians believe they are fighting for their country. Sad reality is that they are dying for globohomo.
Once that truth can pierce through, you better not be called “Zelensky”.
This is from Simplicius:
POW statistics are the only statistic that has actually been at several points released by both sides—which means it’s the only statistic that allows us a measure of insight in comparing the losses of both sides. I had already said many times before that Russia takes upwards of 5-15x more POWs than Ukraine takes of Russian troops, depending on the time. For instance, there was a time that Ukraine officially confirmed having around ~2500 Russian POWs when Russia verifiably had over 12-15k+ Ukrainian ones.
POW to KIA ratios are obviously relative in the same way WIA to KIA are, which gives us an idea of the two sides KIA ratios as well.
Eventually the lies will be revealed and will show the devastation of Ukraine and their brave and courageous soldiers. (Does not include the neo-Nazi killers)
The world´s biggest undertaker company, The U.S. State Department today visited Kiev, Foreign minister, Anthony Blinken, is it 400- or 500.000 losses for the Ukraine… Blinken doesn’t care, stiff upper lip, a pat on the shoulder for his colleague in Kiev. Blinken is the perfect model for an undertaker, that’s what he radiates, ice, coldness, now the penny dropped, at last.
What I find fascinating is amount of red and black flags on the top picture, if we need a proof that they are followers of Bandera, we don’t need to look further than that…
“Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
See those red and black flags, those are nazi flags. The morgue featured has the same red and black flag on the entrance as a banner. The wife joined the fight with the Aidar Battalion whose motto is inspired by the Third Reich. It is supposed to be funded by Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoyskyi, who allegedly funds the Azoz Battalion too. They commit atrocities. I don’t feel sorry for her knowing this.
I recommend taking a look at this. TRG RDD has put in some serious good digging.
https://youtu.be/hyYkY-xIeuA
I recommend you do not take a look at this
You Provincial cousins spawn of ye old colony of Virginia who had no use for Royals and deemed treason small price for freedom now employ English Prince Royal traitor as shill in your Empire of Lies. It’s embarrassing being British but ye gods some Patriots you lot turned out to be. And another thing Harry Trueman when he said (behind Churchills back) “we Anit fighting the war to save the British Empire“ Well what the fu…. were you fighting it for then because it’s not exactly obvious, is it?
https://youtu.be/hyYkY-xIeuA