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Mario Nawfal

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🚨🇺🇦 OPINION: UKRAINE’S ARMY IS COLLAPSING FROM THE INSIDE - 310,000 DESERTION CASES AND A PEACE PLAN THAT LOOKS LIKE SURRENDER Now the numbers are official: Ukraine’s Prosecutor General confirmed 311,000 open criminal cases for AWOL and desertion since the invasion began. 255,000 for soldiers who left but might come back, 56,000 full desertions. Over half - 162,000 - happened this year alone. October set a record: 21,600 men walked away. That’s 1 every 2 minutes. This isn’t Russian propaganda. This is Ukraine’s own prosecutors, the people who have to process these cases. Frontline drone commander, Ihor Lutsenko: “By the time you finish reading this, another soldier will have put on skis. Ukraine will be weaker by one defender, and the enemy stronger by one.” Now add the dead and wounded. Credible estimates from Ukrainian journalists and analysts put total casualties around 300,000–400,000. That means 600,000–700,000 men are gone - either dead, maimed, or simply walked off. Zelensky still claims an 800,000-man army. Do the math. There’s almost nobody left to hold the line. And right now, this is the exact moment Trump drops a peace plan that reads like Moscow wrote it. Crimea stays Russian forever. Big chunks of Donbas and Zaporizhzhia that Russia doesn’t even control yet get handed over. Ukrainian army capped at 600,000. No NATO - written into the constitution. In exchange? Some vague “security guarantee” enforced by a Trump-led council. Putin’s people are calling it “optimistic.” Zelensky’s team is talking about a White House visit to “close the deal.” Meanwhile, the guys still in the trenches are calling it betrayal. This is the story of Ukraine being told to amputate its own limbs and thank the surgeon. The deserters aren’t cowards. They’re fathers who’ve watched their friends get turned into red mist, kids who’ve been in the same trench for 2 years with no rotation, men who realize the country is asking them to die for ground that’s already being traded away in a conference room. Look, I’m not cheering for Russia here. This is a meat grinder eating young men from villages in Kharkiv to backwoods in Siberia. Ukraine’s held longer than anyone thought because of grit, drones, and Western gear - but you can’t fight with ghosts. And the plan? It’s not peace; it’s partition, with Ukraine footing the bill for its own handcuffs. Trump says it’s not final, Zelensky’s playing for time, Putin’s smirking from the Kremlin. But the clock’s ticking - every 2 minutes, another pair of boots vanishes into the mud. If this holds, Ukraine’s not just losing land; it’s losing its shot at being a real country, not a buffer state forever. Pull up the prosecutor’s numbers yourself. Read the plan leak. Then ask: how many more have to run before someone calls time? Sources: NV Ukraine, ZeroHedge, Antiwar, Axios, Al Jazeera, CSIS Media: CBC News

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