Those of you who have been keeping up with my Telegram channel – join if you haven’t already, a lot of my regular readers are there already and contribute to a robust discussion in the comments – will know that, early this morning, a substantial number of the Banderites in the bowels of the Azovstal factory in Mariupol’ have surrendered. The impact of this news cannot be overstated – and nor can the degree of spin involved from the Banderistas and their lick-spittle clique of Western whorenalist and presstitute supporters.

The Surrenders

Let’s first take a look at the surrenders themselves. I have provided a couple of videos, which are in Russian, along with my own personal translations of the language:

The Russian side (direction) opened a humanitarian corridor. From the morning, from 3 in the morning, we see soldiers of the Ukrainians travelling (by bus). Not less than 200, around 300 individuals, leave in the convoy after negotiations with the Russian side. All of them are from Azovstal. This medical convoy of Ukrainian fighters from the Azovstal factory go to the hospital of Novoazovsk.

— Didact’s Translation

Note that 3am Kiev/Moscow time is about 8pm EST and 1am GMT. At present, it appears that there are a dwindling number of Banderites sitting in the Azovstal factory itself.

Here’s one from РИА НОВОСТИ (Russian news service) on the RuTube (yes, really) video-sharing platform:

The surrender of the militants of the nationalist Azov battalion began, from the blockaded factory “Azovstal” in Mariupol’. Total of 265 militants laid down their weapons, in those, 55 needed medical attention. All of those who need medical help, will be taken to the Novoazovsk hospital.

— Didact’s Translation

My translations from Russian into English are probably overly literal – my level of Russian is somewhere around that of an 8-year-old native-speaker, and probably considerably worse by now. But you get the point.

The Banderite Spin

I want to make it clear that the Banderastan leadership in Kiev has ordered the remaining Azovites and regular Marines still within Azovstal to surrender. That is very much to the good. What is NOT good, however, is their “reasoning” for doing so:

“The garrison ‘Mariupol’ has completed the assigned combat mission. The highest military command issued an order to the commanders of the units located at Azovstal to save the lives of the personnel,” the Ukrainian military statement explained. According to Kiev, while holding positions at Azovstal, its soldiers prevented Russian troops from operating in other theaters.

The two countries have been embroiled in a full-blown conflict since February, when Moscow attacked the neighboring state, following an eight-year standoff over the fate of the Donbass. 

Kiev insisted that the Azov neo-Nazis and members of its regular forces had “prevented the implementation of the [alleged Russian] plan for the quick capture of [nearby] Zaporozhye, and did not allow access to the administrative border of the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions.”

Back in the days when I used to work for Big Bad GloboHomoBank (both #1 and #2), this is what our traders would have called, “pure and total bovine faecal matter”. (They would have used a rather shorter and fruitier term than that, you understand.) Every single word of the Ukie statement is bilge – including the prepositions.

Here’s why. Take a look at the map from last night from Readovka:

Never mind all the scribbling in Cyrillic if you don’t understand it – it isn’t that hard to figure out, and if you can’t, just ask in the comments, since I can read the place-names just fine. You will notice that Melitopol’, the port city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, is part of Zaporozhye region. Moreover, the Russians now control the entire Azov/Black Sea coastline of Ukraine, except for Nikolaev (or Mykolaiv, as Ukrainians call it), and Odessa.

The Russians have not yet taken Zaporozhye itself – and there is a VERY GOOD REASON why not. The Motor Sich Factory in Zaporozhye was majority-owned by the Chinese, until the Ukies nationalised it last year. That factory makes high-output jet turbine engines, of the kind used for heavy lift aircraft (like the, very sadly destroyed, Antonov An-225 Mriya – it actually hurts physically to see that beautiful plane ruined and blown apart). That is why the Russians have very conspicuously left most of the city of Zaporozhye alone – while bombing the absolute CRAP out of Kharkov, Kiev, L’vov, Odessa, and a number of other Banderite cities.

Simply put, the Russians want to leave Zaporozhye as intact as possible, to avoid causing losses to their Chinese allies. This is rather smarter thinking than anything the Ukrops have been able to come up with of late, that’s for sure.

But there is nothing much stopping the Russians from taking Zaporozhye region itself. The reason they do not do so right now, is because their primary priority is the total destruction of the Ukrainian Joint Force Operation in the Donbas – which consists of between 30K and 60K troops, depending on which estimate you read. (I’ve seen estimates at the high end of 100K at the beginning of Phase 2 of Operation Z – though God only knows how many of the original JFO have now been killed in battle by the inhumanly heavy Russian arty barrages.)

This is THE critical mission for the Allied forces. The Russians have made it absolutely clear that they regard the presence of the JFO as an extreme provocation, and one of their core aims in the Special Military Operation – to the Russians, this is not a war – is to secure the borders of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. This, by necessity, means wiping out the JFO.

And that is precisely what they are doing, to tremendous and genuinely terrifying effect.

I have seen the photos and videos coming from Russian, LDNR, and Ukrainian sources from the Donbas region, of Ukrainian forces being pummelled and shelled and blasted and torn apart by overwhelming volumes of Russian artillery and air strikes. The photos and videos are horrifying to see. I don’t share them because it just doesn’t feel right – and they would empty your stomach, if you are a delicate constitution. You’ll just have to trust me when I tell you that they are awful.

The Ukrainians are currently losing between 300 and 700 men EVERY SINGLE DAY in DEAD alone, never mind wounded – and if you go by modern military science, the number of wounded is probably around 2-3 times the number of dead. They are losing roughly the equivalent of a battalion EVERY DAY in terms of combat-effective troops. The Ukrainians are on their fourth general mobilisation, and are still looking for men to throw into the battle.

Furthermore, if you actually look at the tactical and operational situation on the ground – as I do – then you will see that the Russian and Allied forces have:

• Captured Izyum and are pushing south and west from there;
• Captured Popasnaya and now have artillery overlooking the Severodonetsk-Lisichansk grouping;
• Effectively encircled Krasniy Liman, northeast of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk line;
• Entered Severodonetsk itself and are now engaged in street combat in the city itself;

The Russians are winning the war on the ground. This is indisputable to anyone other than a Ukrop, a whorenalist, or a blue-check-markt Twatterer. They have created a series of physical mini-cauldrons in the overall Donbas fire-control cauldron, and are actively manoeuvring troops into position to put severe pressure on the concentrations of Ukie positions in the JFO concentrations. They are making slow, steady, incremental progress every single day.

Their strategy in the Donbas is exactly analogous to their strategy in the Battle of Azovstal – steady, overwhelming pressure that strains, then cracks, and finally breaks all resistance, cutting to and through the very bone.

And that pressure is really building right now. The pattern that we see in the conflict right now is slow-slow-slow-slow-SUDDEN COLLAPSE.

The Copium

The Western presstitutes and whorenalists keep trying to spin this as some sort of great Ukrainian “victory”, similar to Thermopylae. This is monumentally stupid, even by presstitute standards.

Firstly, even on a rhetorical level, the comparison with Thermopylae is extremely stupid. The reality is that Thermopylae was a military DISASTER for the Spartans. They lost one of their two kings and 300 of their finest hoplites, along with a substantial force of auxiliaries – never mind the (awesomesauce) version that you see in the film, 300, the ACTUAL defending force on the Greek side at Thermopylae amounted to 300 Spartiate heavy infantry, along with roughly 700 auxiliaries and skirmishers, and roughly 6,000 other Greek hoplites and support troops.

It was only AFTER the crushing Greek victory over the Persians at Plataea that the Greeks were really able to mythologise Thermopylae as a kind of glorious last stand – and, make no mistake, the Spartans fought like daemons on the last day of that battle, fighting with bare hands and teeth even when their weapons and shields broke or were rendered useless.

The only way for the Ukies to do the same, is to launch a massive counteroffensive that throws the Russians back from Mariupol’ and southern Ukraine.

And they’re going to manage that with… what, exactly?

The Ukrainians are virtually out of petroleum and diesel – last I heard, they have less than a week’s supply left, and are desperate for new supplies sent through Roumania or Poland. Lines for fuel stretch for kilometres in Kiev and Kharkov and people need up to 9 hours to get barely 10 litres of fuel. Their rail network has been crippled by Russian missile strikes, so they have to transport pretty much everything by truck over open ground, under constant enemy surveillance. Their rail gauge is not compatible with Western European gauges anyway, so any Western arms and fuel shipments have to be laboriously offloaded at the Ukrainian and Polish borders, and then reloaded, and then transported. The Russians have comprehensively crippled their rail-bridge network as well – just today they damaged the main transport bridge in Odessa beyond repair.

The Ukrainians have lost all ability to move and fight. There is ample video evidence on Telegram and the RUnet showing Ukrainians moving in thin-skinned civilian vehicles – their own personal vehicles, in most cases. They are running out of ammunition. If you watch the videos of Ukrainian captives, they are nowadays very much on the older and less fit side, and they are deeply embittered by the ways in which they have been abandoned by their commanders and superiors, whom they say threw them into combat with maybe a few days’ worth of training and barely enough ammo for a single day of fighting.

The Ukrainians are burning through more rifle and artillery rounds in ONE DAY than the West can send for ONE WEEK. The USSA is sending half as many artillery shells to Ukraine for their M777 howitzers – which by the way are useless in actual combat, relative to the demands placed on them, especially with their digital fire control boxes removed due to ITAR regulations – IN TOTAL, as the Russians use in all of their theatres in ONE SINGLE DAY.

Where, exactly, is this Great Ukrainian Counteroffensive going to come from? The Ukies have been threatening to launch an offensive around Gulyaipolye for days, but when they tried, they got hammered and lost 300+ men and at least 30 tanks, judging by what I have seen. And they have since abandoned any idea of such a counteroffensive and have tried to redeploy those troops to the Donbas – with, it must be said, very little by way of results.

The Russians have turned the entirety of the Donbas area into a meat-grinder. The pictures will turn your stomach – believe me, I know. The Empire of Lies is trying to flood Ukraine with weapons to turn it into another Afghanistan, but that isn’t working – and even if Ukraine had the men to throw into more offensives (which it doesn’t), it needs time to train those men on Western weapons.

On top of all of that, Ukraine’s economy is BROKEN. There is simply no way for them to pay for any of their expenditures anymore. Ukraine – or, more specifically, its government – is now a gigantic black hole that sucks in vast amounts of Western money and military equipment, none of which will ever be seen again. Indeed, the Banderastan War has effectively become the world’s greatest arms-reduction programme – to the point where the German and Canadian governments are warning that they can no longer send more weaponry, because they are depleting their own stocks.

The True Meaning of Azovstal

The reality is that the Azovstal Saga is a microcosm of the entire conflict. It is a story of human tragedy and a terrible waste of human life, thrown away to no good end. The Russians, DPR, and Chechens fought like daemons for every square metre of territory that they took in Mariupol’, and then bottled up the best that the Ukrainians had in one area, and proceeded to bomb and shell them into complete combat-ineffectiveness.

The Kiev regime tried to build Azovstal up into some sort of great myth, some legendary last stand, to give their troops courage in the field. Yet that is precisely the opposite of what has actually happened. The Ukrainian troops that are surrendering – by the dozens and hundreds every day, actually, much more than the Western whorenalists will admit – have nothing but venom for their commanders and political leaders.

And now that the Azovstal myth has collapsed, we can probably expect to see some degree of general collapse in morale among the remaining defenders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Военная Служба Украины – ВСУ, as it were).

Speaking personally, based on the data and reports that I am seeing, I get the strong feeling that we are entering some sort of end-point of this phase of the war. The strongest concentrations of JFO troops in the Donbas are utterly surrounded, immobile, and incapable of substantial resupply – the Russians are moving inexorably toward physically cutting off their supply lines, whereas right now they can “only” bomb and strike incoming supplies with arty and missiles. Their lines of retreat are cut off, and their idiot “leaders” in Kiev (and actually in Washington, London, and Brussels) have given them “stand and fight” orders, telling them to fight down to the last Ukrainian.

The key thing to keep in mind here is that this is not a “war” between Russia and Ukraine – in fact, the Russians do not even regard this as a war, at all. They call it, correctly, a special military operation (Специальная Военная Операция – СВО). This is much more correctly understood as a war between the West and Russia – which is precisely how the Russians think of it.

The Russians have been winning this war since, pretty much, the third week of this whole horrid affair. Once they recovered from the initial, and quite severe, shock of the sanctions, they immediately put in place policies and actions to ensure that their economy would be shielded from the worst of the effects. They now have a currency backed by the world’s largest reserves of natural resources, and floored by gold. And they are the world’s true commodities superpower.

The West, by contrast, has absolutely no idea what the hell it is doing, and is now dealing with multiple self-inflicted gunshot wounds that are bleeding out rapidly with no hope of staunching quickly or easily. Ukraine is bleeding them dry, NOT the Russians. But the West’s leaders are too stubborn, stupid, and evil to understand this.

In conclusion, the Surrender at Azovstal is not the end of the war, not even close. But it might just be the beginning of the end of the latest phase in the war between the GloboHomoPaedo West, and the emerging Eurasian powerhouse.