Victory Chronicles
-DAY 162

ARM UKRAINE: HOW ARE THE ALLIES TALLYING UP?

Above: Data through July 1, chart via Kiel Institute for the World Economy Ukraine Support Tracker

• According to the Kiel Institute, “The momentum of further commitments to Ukraine is slowing. In the additional period covered in the latest Ukraine Support Tracker release (June 8 to July 1), only few new pledges were added, and they were less substantial. The largest single new commitment is military assistance from the United Kingdom of €1.5 billion. We now record total commitments of 80.7 billion euros. This figure has only increased by about three percent since the last update.

• “What is striking is the large gap between pledged and delivered support. Both military and financial deliveries still fall short of what Ukraine says it needs and what was promised to the country.”

rUSSIA IS A STATE SPONSOR OF LIES AND MURDER

Above: Burned prison barracks in Olenivka that held Ukrainian defenders.  Photo via Yahoo News

• Over and over, we see the kremlin pushing pure lies that are counterfactual to the evidence. There’s no difference with the Olenivka POW massacre. Ukrainian and US officials have learned that russia is scrambling to back-fill fabricated evidence after their obvious murder of Azovstal and other Ukrainian POWs at a prison in Kheson region.

• First, the imcompetent orcs reported that a Western-supplied missile surgically destroyed a prison dormitory full of Azov and other Ukrainian defenders.  War analysts immediately saw that the strike was not a result of an incoming missile, but of an internal explosion and fire. Forensic experts pointed to signs that at least some of the deceased were killed before the explosion.

• Now, Ukrainian intelligence has confirmed evidence that local collaborators worked with the russian kgb and mercenary wager group to mine the barracks before starting an accelerant-fueled fire in order to cover up torture, murder and inhumane conditions. .

• russia is still staging the crime scene a week later.  Intelligence has overheard their plans to place pieces of HIMARS ordinance at the site.  It’s no wonder that the terrorist-occupants have not allowed any outside parties, such as the Red Cross, into the crime scene.

• russians are officially against truth. The ru embassy in the UK tweeted that Azov Defenders are fake soldiers that deserve the worst kind of death.  We bet that those London staffers are glad they don’t live in russia.

rUSSIA BURNING EXCESS NATURAL GAS

Above: A Finnish trekker took this picture through a telescope of flames over a Gazprom transit facility in western russia. Photo via YLE.FI

• Residents across the russian border in Finland have been seeing huge flames in the sky over russian natural gas transmission facilities. Flames have been detected at Gazprom’s Portovaya compressor station every day since June 17, according to satellite images from NASA’s fire monitoring system.  Analysts say it could mean some kind of technical problems or just too much gas with nowhere to go.

• Meanwhile in Europe, people are being asked to save energy in big ways and small after the kremlin has reduced Nord Stream-1 flows to 20 percent of capacity. Cold showers and lights out are being adopted as small steps towards ensuring enough energy to get through the cold season this year. If Russia decides to turn off the gas completely, many European countries will be hard pressed to build up reserves over the next few years.

• Ukraine is preparing for a hard winter.  Ukraine buys its natural gas from European neighbors, so the restriction of deliveries to Europe threatens its access to energy, too.  But Ukraine has been highly incentivized to reduce energy consumption and dependence on russian energy since its unfortunate neighbor began periodically cutting off supplies over twenty years ago.  Even so, the enemy is targeting heating infrastructure with an eye to freezing out civilians.

CANADA TO JOIN UK-BASED MILITARY TRAINING FOR UKRAINE

Above: Operation UNIFIER sent Canadian military to Ukraine to train over 33 thousand Ukrainians on advanced military operations from 2015 through 2021. Photo via Ukrinform

• Canada is expected to confirm today that it will join the UK’s ambitious program to train 10,000 Ukrainians in the UK  for combat readiness.  Outgoing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson committed to the training program in mid-June while meeting with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

• Canada has a long-standing program for training Ukrainians in advanced combat techniques under the Operation Unifier program that started in September 2015. As of January 31, 2022, Canadians had trained over 33 thousand Ukrainians in Ukraine including the Ukrainian  Armed Forces and National Guard.  The program was paused at the start of the full-scale russian invasion.