Ukraine War discussion - Threat to Public Health

[kiwibird]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12498023/DAVID-PATRIKARAKOS-reveals-horrors-seen-Ukrainians-living-Russian-occupation.html

"..Just days ago, it was confirmed that insulin will now not be issued to anyone in the occupied territories who does not have a Russian passport —even children. Treatment of other diseases will also now be refused. The order came from the highest levels...."

[Pathfinder]

UK estimates over 300,000 Russian military casualties

By George Allison - November 14, 2023129

New estimates provided by the UK government have shed light on the extensive losses suffered by Russian military forces in Ukraine since February 2022.
The figures, disclosed in response to queries from John Healey MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, outline a significant toll on Russian military capabilities.
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In response to Healey’s enquiry about the Russian military personnel losses, James Heappey, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, provided a stark assessment, stating, “We estimate that approximately 302,000 Russian military personnel have been killed or wounded, and tens of thousands more have already deserted since the start of the conflict.”
...

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-estimates-over-300000-russian-military-casualties/

[Emily]

Arestovich, close to Zelensky, says it is Ukraine who has lost about 300,000. (I've heard estimates of Russia losing 10's of thousands.) He also blames the UK's Boris Johnson for obstructing an early peace negotiation.

https://rumble.com/v3yypx1-arestovich-on-end-of-peace-talks.html

That is corroborated in an interview with another Ukrainian involved:

https://sonar21.com/the-west-pushed-ukraine-to-war-and-now-it-is-paying-the-butchers-bill/

More corroboration:

https://braveneweurope.com/michael-von-der-schulenburg-hajo-funke-harald-kujat-peace-for-ukraine

Michael von der Schulenburg, Hajo Funke, Harald Kujat – Peace For Ukraine

November 10, 2023
The disastrous derailment of early peace efforts to end the war in Ukraine Michael von der Schulenburg is a former UN Assistant Secretary-General, who worked for over 34 years for the United Nations, and shortly for the OSCE, in many countries in war or internal armed conflicts often involving fragile governments and armed non-state actors

Hajo Funke is Professor Emeritus for political sciences of the Otto-Suhr-Institute/ Freie University Berlin

General (ret.) Harald Kujat was the highest ranging German officer of the Bundeswehr and at NATO
The British Prime Minister’s fateful visit to Kiev on 9 April 2022

This is a detailed reconstruction of the Ukrainian-Russian peace negotiations in March 2022 and the associated mediation attempts by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, supported by President Erdogan and former German Chancellor Schröder. It was drawn up by retired General H. Kujat and Professor Emeritus H. Funke, two of the initiators of the recently presented peace plan for Ukraine. And it is also in connection with their peace plan that this reconstruction is so extremely important. It reminds us that we cannot afford to delay ceasefire and peace negotiations again. The human and military situation in Ukraine deteriorates dramatically, with the added danger that it could lead to a further escalation of the war. We need a diplomatic solution to this cruel war for Europe and the Ukraine – and we need it now!

From the detailed reconstruction of the March peace efforts 6 conclusions emerge:

1. Just one month after the start of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian negotiators had come very close to an agreement for a ceasefire and to an outline for a comprehensive peace solution to the conflict.

2) In contrast to today, President Zelensky and his government had made great efforts to negotiate peace with Russia and bring the war to a quick end.

3) Contrary to Western interpretations, Ukraine and Russia agreed at the time that the planned NATO expansion was the reason for the war. They therefore focused their peace negotiations on Ukraine’s neutrality and its renunciation of NATO membership. In return, Ukraine would have retained its territorial integrity except for Crimea.

4) There is little doubt that these peace negotiations failed due to resistance from NATO and in particular from the USA and the UK. The reasons is that such a peace agreement would have been tantamount to a defeat for NATO, an end to NATO’s eastward expansion and thus an end to the dream of a unipolar world dominated by the USA.

5. The failure of the peace negotiations in March 2022 led to dangerous intensification of the war that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, especially young people, deeply traumatized a young generation and inflicted the most severe mental and physical wounds on them. Ukraine has been exposed to enormous destruction, internal displacements, and mass impoverishment. This si accompanied by a large-scale depopulation of the country. Not only Russia, but also NATO and the West bear a heavy share of the blame for this disaster.

6) Ukraine’s negotiating position today is far worse than it was in March 2022. Ukraine will now lose large parts of its territory.

7. The blocking of the peace negotiations at that time has harmed everyone: Russia and Europe – but above all the people of Ukraine, who are paying with their blood the price for the ambitions of the major powers and will probably get nothing in return...

[Emily]

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-missing-soldiers-dead-captivity-59th-brigade-volodymyr-dembovskyi/

‘Give me my bones’: Ukrainian families fight for truth about missing soldiers

Kateryna Dembovska was told her husband had died. But there are reasons to doubt the Ukrainian army’s official account

Kateryna Farbar

27 November 2023, 12.54pm
When Kateryna Dembovska’s husband went missing in action in May last year, she was told all that was left of him and his unit was one body and two black bags in a Mykolaiv morgue.

According to his brigade, Volodymyr Dembovskyi, a gunner in a motorised infantry company, was burned alive in a Russian artillery strike on a village in southern Ukraine.

Fellow soldiers, including their commander, were unable to save him and six other soldiers as their building was engulfed in flames, relatives were told.

But Dembovska doesn’t believe the 59th Brigade’s leadership or its investigation – and has tried on her own to find out exactly what happened to her husband on 8 May 2022...

Some videos of what Ukrainian troops are enduring here:

https://sonar21.com/meanwhile-back-in-ukraine-desperation-sets-in/

[Pathfinder]

Occupants Are Massively Affected by “Mouse Fever” in Kupiansk Direction

December 19, 2023

Occupants Are Massively Affected by “Mouse Fever” in Kupiansk DirectionDefence Intelligence of Ukraine informs that dissatisfaction is growing in the units of the russian occupying army due to inadequate provision of winter uniforms, as well as complete lack of medical care.

Thus, in the Kupiansk direction, an outbreak of the so-called “mouse fever” has been recorded in many units of the russian invaders.

The disease is viral in nature and is transmitted to humans from rodents: through direct contact with the pathogen, by inhaling mouse feces dust or by ingestion of mouse feces in food.

Symptoms of “mouse fever” include severe headache, fever of up to 40 degrees, rashes and redness, low blood pressure, haemorrhages in the eyes, nausea, and vomiting several times a day.

In addition, the disease affects the kidneys. Therefore, a person infected with “mouse fever” suffers from severe lower back pain. He also faces serious problems with urination.

Complaints about fever from the russian army personnel involved in the war against Ukraine were ignored by the command, considering them as another manifestation of evasion from participation in hostilities. In addition, at the first stage of its course, “mouse fewer” resembles a common flu.

As a result, the “mouse fever” has significantly reduced the combat capability of the russian soldiers.

https://gur.gov.ua/en/content/na-kupianskomu-napriamku-frontu-okupantiv-masovo-kosyt-myshacha-lykhomanka.html

[sharon sanders]

I am guessing this is HFRS:

"..Where is HFRS found?

HFRS is found throughout the world. Haantan virus is widely distributed in eastern Asia, particularly in China, Russia, and Korea. Puumala virus is found in Scandinavia, western Europe, and western Russia. Dobrava virus is found primarily in the Balkans, and Seoul virus is found worldwide. Saaremaa is found in central Europe and Scandinavia. In the Americas, hantaviruses cause a different disease known as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome..."

https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/hfrs/...he%20infection.