Ukraine: All is not quiet on the Eastern Front - UK Column News - 30th November 2022

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-30th-november-2022

- Two clips: Channel 4's International Editor, Lindsay Hilsum, in the trenches
- Brian Gerrish commentary: Hilsum should be credited for attending the scene, but not all parts of the line of contact are nearly as calm as the section portrayed
- Dishevelled Minister for War, Ben Wallace, pictured by Ukrainian News having a chuckle with a dapper aide and Ukrainian hosts
- Brian Gerrish analysis: Without air support or proper ground vehicles and with Ukrainian unit manning seemingly dwindling, this inevitably means thousands of casualties—the only "momentum" is towards a failed state
- Bleeding Bakhmut drops off the BBC map: no updates from the city on BBC website, but recently BBC did publish photos captioned "The Ukrainian army suffers heavy losses near Bakhmut"
- Reportedly a tenfold increase in Ukrainian casualties
- NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Bucharest
- Recapitulation of BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler's ridiculous claim that NATO is not training or equipping Ukrainian Armed Forces
Clip: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba rehearses his equipment shopping list directly to Jens Stoltenberg's face—rather giving the lie to Adler's journalism
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: NATO chief expects allies to step up air-defense support to Ukraine
- NATO: NATO foreign ministers set to address more support for Ukraine
- NATO screenshot: NATO-Ukraine Trust Funds; NATO has been handling funds for Ukraine for mine clearance and ammunition destruction since 2010 to meet Ottawa Convention obligations
- Yet butterfly mines (PfM)—supposedly destroyed in this programme—are still being deployed by Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass
- Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares promises to deliver HAWK air defence systems to Ukraine
- Deputy Chairman of Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warns that Stoltenberg's hint of supplying Ukraine with Patriot anti-aircraft batteries crewed by NATO personnel will immediately make them a legitimate target
- Soft loans: Ukrainian News reports Ukraine will need more than $3 billion per month in 2023 to eliminate state budget deficit and that the country has received €5 billion in tranches of macro-financial assistance from the EU in just the past two months
- Clip: Zelensky foresees a monumental reconstruction "amounting to over a trillion dollars"—this is apparently not meant as comedy