Military correspondent Kotenok reproached Western media for articles about the Armed Forces of Ukraine

News about the problems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with human resources is not a sensation, stated in his Telegram channel, Russian front-line reporter Yuri Kotenok. This is how he commented on the publication of The Washington Post that the Ukrainian army is running out of professional soldiers, and conscripts do not want to fight.

From the point of view of a military journalist, such articles are published not to tell the truth, but as a trick for Russia.

There is clearly no sensation here; problems with human resources on the other side of the line of combat contact are a given, Kitten shared his opinion.

“But when all the Western media, including those that don’t even utter a word without the approval of the elites behind them, sharply begin to accelerate the narrative that the (Ukrainian) army is falling apart and there is no point in expecting success, this least of all looks like a desire to convey the truth and most of all, the desire to make Russia believe in it,” summed up the military correspondent.

For the sixth month now, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been trying to advance in the Yuzhnodonetsk, Artemovsk and Zaporozhye directions, throwing into battle brigades trained by the North Atlantic Alliance and armed with Western-made equipment. In early October, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 90 thousand people, 557 tanks and almost 1.9 thousand armored vehicles during the counter-offensive operation. According to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, in November alone, the losses of the Ukrainian army amounted to more than 13.7 thousand people.