Ukraine: Bakhmut bloodbath; mainstream media plunge to dross reporting - UK Column News

https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-5th-december-2022

- BBC—Ukraine war: Zelensky reveals up to 13,000 war dead
Brian Gerrish commentary: The article contains a huge spread of figures, as if Western intelligence were unable to arrive at even a ballpark figure; several other conflicting BBC graphics shown on screen indicate it has no idea what is happening
Graphic of war deaths over time from BBC—War in Ukraine: Can we say how many people have died? (1 July 2022)
Brian Gerrish analysis: Ukrainian war deaths are likely now around 85,000, with 500 a day currently dying in Bakhmut—so high that Zelensky and the BBC dare not report them
- Clip: Since-deleted footage of Ursula von der Leyen getting war death figures muddled
- London Loves Business: Bakhmut is ‘littered’ with Russian ‘corpses’ and both sides are fighting in dreadful conditions in knee-deep water
- KNews: Inside Bakhmut frontline ‘littered with corpses’ and ‘colossal’ losses
- KNews’ source: Daily Express
- Newsweek: Russia is running out of ammo: how much longer can it keep fighting?—a question better asked of Ukraine and NATO
- Brian Gerrish commentary: Meanwhile, The Times and leading military think tank RUSI admit Britain has only a week’s war supply of ammunition—cognitive dissonance
- Clip: Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin goes wide-eyed with surprise that Russia followed through on its warnings
David Scott commentary: Ukrainian accession to NATO was merely a matter of time on the eve of the war, despite the Crimean territorial dispute, which made Ukrainian accession a powder keg and a fast sprint to war—Marin didn’t see the war coming but many wiser Westerners did
- Clip: Clare Daly MEP, 23 November 2022, in European Parliament plenary session—NATO wars for “freedom, democracy and human rights” bring terror, death, lawlessness, rape, poverty and starvation
- Daily Express: Ukraine to trigger ‘military collapse’ in Russia with morale-shattering spring offensive
Brian Gerrish commentary: Fantasy-land reporting—but the NATO government ministers are real