another unit of the ukrainian army
refuses to fight in the dombass
we refuse to carry out combat missions
because we don't have reinforcements we
are being sent to certain death we don't
refuse to defend ukraine but in such
conditions we refuse to carry out combat
missions
[Music]
i have been discussing for quite some
time now the ongoing special military
operation not just in ukraine but more
specifically in the donbass which is the
eastern region of ukraine where the
majority of the fighting is going to be
taking place now we know that the
russian uh soldiers currently are
embarking in two pinscher operations
they're essentially encircling ukrainian
troops in the north of the donbass as
well as in the south of the dombass
right and
there have been some stalls in their
efforts right they've been trying but
both militaries right i mean obviously
the ukrainians are getting routed right
now but as far as crossing the sever don
yetzk river which is a very important
point for the russians to continue their
encirclement uh they have had some some
stalls some delays i mean as you can
imagine it's quite difficult the
ukrainians have also had delays along
this river uh and had suffered some
immense casualties because if you're
trying to cross a river uh moving water
you don't have a bridge you're trying to
create a bridge you you isolate all of
your service members in one area that's
a that's a prime target for uh you know
an airstrike or you know shelling on any
side so uh both military suffered quite
a few casualties in trying to cross this
region but um
what we do know is that today and this
is uh this is you know one day after we
saw the news of all these ukrainian
service members surrendering in ease of
stall we are now seeing
large swaths of ukrainian service
members and soldiers actually some of
the preliminary top fighting forces of
the ukrainian military begin to lay down
their arms and refuse to fight in the
dombass this is breaking news and what's
so interesting about this i'm gonna get
to it and dive into it more in a second
is that this news actually didn't come
today but we're receiving this news
today i think the reason why the
ukrainian high command the supreme
military command told those aids of
stall soldiers to surrender uh just the
other day was because they knew that
these soldiers in the donbass region
were refusing to fight and they were not
taking these you know uh fight to stand
orders from the ukrainian military
command and they were about to lay down
their arms and refuse to fight so in an
effort to kind of muddy the waters crete
distraction right
everyone knew that this was going to
happen in ease of stall so they bit the
bullet on on uh
surrendering these troops and as of
stall to try and distract people from
what was going on in um
in these 115th brigade of the ukrainian
uh military right because there was some
talks that they were going to no longer
take these orders and they were going to
refuse to fight and now we've seen one
group do that and it looked like this
ease of stall thing was supposed to be a
distraction but it actually exacerbated
the issue because now we have two major
platoons within the 115th brigade of the
ukrainian military that's fighting in
the dombass who have now refused to
fight so let's take a look at this let's
break it down this is huge news breaking
news and we are no longer seeing signals
of the uh you know breaking down of the
ukrainian military in the donbass we are
witnessing it let's take a look so here
you had this just the other day
asb military news says pro ukraine
western journalists on ground along the
front lines are now reporting that don
bass defense is falling apart for the
ukrainians okay
uh and then we saw this so this was the
first platoon of the 115th brigade of
the armed forces of ukraine who decided
that they were going to lay down their
arms as you can see here there are quite
a few individuals in this video um
they're obviously speaking in uh
ukrainian but look at how many people
there i mean that's gotta be that's
gotta be at least a hundred men right
there that are refusing to fight right
that's gotta be around a hundred men um
all refusing to fight they say another
appeal from the ukrainian forces this
time from the 115th brigade synopsis no
way to follow orders the enemy drove us
out of our positions we cannot perform
combat missions due to low morale and
poor psychological state ukrainians are
being used as cannon fodder so
there is a uh longer statement that that
full video reads and it's been
transcribed i couldn't find it uh right
before i began i had seen it but i
couldn't find it right before we started
streaming and that's what i was delaying
and trying to look for as we were
beginning the stream but um we have
another statement from a second platoon
of the 115th brigade which is also quite
large that we do have the full statement
of that i'm going to share with you in a
second
but um yeah that's got to be at least
like probably 60 to 100 men right there
uh probably wasn't all of them in the
video you probably also have injured men
that are going to
not try to recuperate and continue
fighting they are also going to be
laying down their arms that weren't in
the video so i would imagine that's
probably between 60 and 100 men right
there um
and that that's huge i mean these are
the top fighting forces that are on
these aren't just like guys who are oh
you know we're doing shaping operations
we're trying to maneuver our men and
maybe do some shelling against the
russians no these are the
front lines of the top fighting forces
in ukraine that are now saying look are
our you know our command structures
breaking down uh we don't have a command
we don't have technology to use for you
know communicating with the supreme
military command uh we've been told
we're supposed to be receive heavy
military artillery that hasn't come
we've waited weeks for that uh and and
the the enemy russia is pushing us
further and further back we have no
other options we're not gonna you know
sit here and die or be taken prisoner uh
we're gonna try to
escape and you know they're going to try
to do that we'll see what happens but um
that that is
the first that is the first major
platoon of the 115th brigade who decided
to um
decided to surrender so or to to
refuse to fight not surrender refuse to
fight different
so that took place uh and i think
that the orders from the ukrainian high
military command to
force those a's of stall soldiers to
come up wave the white flags and
surrender was probably an effort to
distract other platoons other you know
members of the 115th brigade were on the
front lines fighting in the donbass from
seeing that from witnessing that from
you know maybe maybe delaying them
seeing that i don't really know
from the media covering that because
obviously the bigger story here right
now is that those ease of stall fighters
were going to surrender but everyone
knew they were going to surrender they
were fully surrounded they didn't have
any other options the story of these
115th brigade platoon members refusing
to fight is actually much larger because
they are refusing the command of the
supreme military command which is
telling them to continue fighting no
matter what that's actually a bigger
story than the ease of stall fighters
surrendering because
they had no they had no other options
right they they were eventually going to
you know have to do this and it seems to
me as though uh the decision to give the
green light on the ease of
soldiers to surrender was an effort to
distract from the bigger story of that
platoon
refusing to fight
well then
we saw it didn't really work out too
well because we saw this as well this
came in today
another unit of the ukrainian army
refuses to fight in the dombass uh we
refuse to carry out combat missions
because we don't have reinforcements we
are being sent to certain death we don't
refuse to defend ukraine but in such
conditions we refuse to carry out combat
missions now i don't know if this is the
full uh platoon pictured here
but clearly this is a much smaller group
of people much smaller smaller group of
individuals it's possible that there
were more individuals but maybe they
didn't want to be included in the video
um but we do have their
uh we do have their full statement here
so here yeah here's another video of it
a 115th brigade of the armed forces of
ukraine refused to fight and obey orders
in several donetsk
which is a very important region right
now where a lot of fighting is taking
place their full statement was
um well this is what they said on don
bass insider the defense of several
donetsk is crumbling another unit of the
armed forces of ukraine refused to fight
another unit of the 115th brigade of the
armed forces of ukraine refused to fight
and obey orders in sever donetsk this
time a platoon of the 3rd battalion of
the 115th brigade recorded an appeal to
zielinski and commander in chief of the
armed forces of ukraine zology this is
what they had to say we refuse to carry
out combat missions because we do not
have reinforcements from behind no heavy
equipment we have been waiting for
reinforcements for two weeks but there
is none
we are being sent to certain debt
the command is missing
there is no technology and respect for
people
we do not refuse to defend ukraine but
in such conditions we refuse to carry
out combat missions so it's as clear as
day what is going on right now um
these fighters do not have the
capabilities to continue fighting they
do not have the men to continue fighting
they do not have the artillery to
continue fighting and they do not have
the morale to continue fighting and they
don't want to end up like the fighters
in ace of stall who were forced to you
know uh refuse to surrender
for months as they lay down in the
underground bunkers and you know
withered away without food without water
without medical aid and for them
actually in the donbass in several
donetsk it's going to be worse because
they're not going to have anywhere to
hide out they're going to be immediately
taken in as pows um and if they try to
put up a fight it would not go well for
them unfortunately okay so um we also
have this news as well out of the region
uh this is from donbass insider as well
ukrainian forces cut off their own units
near crasney le mans thousands of troops
have been trapped in the encirclement by
the russian forces so uh for any troops
within you know this brigade that we're
trying to maybe potentially
uh follow in the steps of the platoons
in the 115th brigade that said we're
gonna you know try to
make our way out and we're gonna we're
gonna try to evacuate right now because
we don't want to fight we can't fight
there's no way we can do this um well
now these troops in this region are
actually being surrounded and they don't
have any options to try and evacuate
anymore so ukrainian armed forces cut
off their own units near crosney
lehman
thousands of troops have been trapped in
the encirclement by the russian forces
local residents report quote we are
waiting for photos and videos that the
punitive detachments of the armed forces
of ukraine blew up a dam across the
severe don yet river cutting off their
units the last way to retreat from
crasney limon
apparently zelushini was the
commander-in-chief of the military is
preparing uh slaveonsk
for defense destroying all the
infrastructure in the district and the
ukrainian command has already forgotten
about crossing limon recall that a
couple weeks ago the ukrainian nazis
blew up the first railway and then the
road bridges leaving this dam for
communication
thus if the information is confirmed the
remnants of the ukrainian units located
near the crosstalk le mans actually
turned out to be surrounded we are
waiting for the next evacuation so
situations are looking quite grim for
the uh ukrainian fighters in this region
right now and as i've said for weeks and
weeks and weeks we always knew that the
end of the fighting that was going to
take place in kramatorsk that's where
the uh center of the fighting and the
don bass was going to take place and it
was eventually going to be pushed back
to this region right
that's where we're going to see the
heart of the battle of the donbass take
place
and now we're witnessing that now we are
witnessing that in fact uh it's become
such a threat that they that the
russians might move in on kramatorsk
right before there's ample preparations
that the ukrainian military might be
able to take in kramatorsk
they are actually cutting off uh these
you know bridgeways these these you know
in this case it was the uh it was it was
the dam um which would have allowed for
thousands of ukrainian troops to
continue back to chroma taurus to fight
apparently uh they need to find another
way to get across the river which is
going to be very difficult it leaves
them exposed as i've said already
you know discussed at the start of this
uh story the russians and the ukrainians
have lost significant military personnel
in trying to cross the the river the
sivir don yitz river because again if
you think about it
it is a very large river and if you were
trying to cross this river by creating a
makeshift bridge as you isolate all of
your service members in one region fully
exposed i mean that is a prime military
target for your adversary to hit so the
russians and ukrainians have lost a
significant amount of service members uh
trying to cross the river and now it
appears as though the ukrainians are
blocking off the the you know exits from
this region back to chromators for
potentially thousands more ukrainian
soldiers
which just goes to show how bad of a
situation it is for them right now um
you have you have this happening you
have multiple platoons major platoons of
the 115th brigade the the you know major
fighting forces the frontline forces who
are who are saying that we are not going
to fight anymore we don't have let me
just read this for you again because
it's a pretty damning um
it's a pretty damning statement right
here so the this was the second platoon
of the 115th brigade and this was the uh
this one was the first platoon so this
one right here i mean that's a lot of
guys that's a lot of guys i saw some of
you saying maybe like 40 to 60 people
that okay let's just look at this
i mean they go all the way back here
like it goes far back as you can see
there's like rows of men
i gotta say that's like 60 to 100 guys
right that's that's gotta be
yeah probably around like 60 guys 70
guys um that's a lot of men right so the
the second platoon that surrendered said
uh we refuse to carry out combat
missions because we do not have
reinforcements from behind no heavy
equipment we've been waiting for
reinforcements for two weeks but there
is none we are being sent to certain
death the command is missing there is no
technology and respect for people we do
not refuse to defend ukraine but in such
conditions we refuse to carry out combat
missions so
the statements we're seeing come out of
uh
you know ukraine right now out of the
dombass with these soldiers um is
they're not too dissimilar from the
statements we heard from the canadian um
sniper wally and his uh his his
co-combatant that was helping him on the
front lines of fighting in the donbass
uh when they said that there it's
completely uh chaotic they have no
command their
people are limited in supplies um
there's no real strategy they are
getting routed by the russians and um
that's why they went back home to canada
so all of this being said you know i
i uh
i truly do feel sorry for the ukrainian
soldiers and the ukrainian uh volunteers
and and mercs who are fighting right now
i do feel sorry for them because uh they
were sold a lie they were sold a fake
story that ukraine was gonna win and it
was obvious to even you know layman's
layman like um you know military
followers like myself and geopolitical
followers like myself that this was not
the case and they would not win and they
would suffer uh very very very
troubling casualties in this war and now
we we are witnessing that this didn't
have to happen they could have had peace
uh unfortunately their u.s subservient
leaders chose to use them as cannon
fodder
above all else
very disappointing this is now uh what
we are witnessing this is now the the
breakdown of the ukrainian forces in the
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