{"id":245248,"date":"2023-10-02T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=245248"},"modified":"2024-07-01T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:20:11","slug":"dying-for-inches-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/dying-for-inches-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying for Inches in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ukrainian trenchline at the Battle of Bakhmut, November 2022
(Mil.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n

That weapons systems are being tested on human bodies to the immense benefit of war profiteers over a completely avoidable and provoked war is nightmarishly depraved.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

30 Sep 2023<\/em> – A heartbreaking graphic<\/a> is going around right now showing the almost microscopic changes that have occurred to the frontline of the war in Ukraine this year despite nonstop death and destruction of unfathomable horror the entire time.<\/p>\n

The graphic comes from a New York Times<\/i> article titled \u201cWho\u2019s Gaining Ground in Ukraine? This Year, No One<\/a>,\u201d which eventually gets around to acknowledging<\/a> that Russia has actually gained more ground than Ukraine in 2023 despite Kiev\u2019s much-hyped counteroffensive<\/a>, which began in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen both sides\u2019 gains are added up, Russia now controls nearly 200 square miles more territory in Ukraine compared with the start of the year,\u201d the Times<\/i> reports.<\/p>\n

As \u201cLeft I on the News\u201d\u00a0noted on Twitter<\/a>, this contradicts the titular claim in another New York Times<\/i> article published last week under the headline \u201cUkraine Has Gained Ground. But It Has Much Further To Go.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

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Millimetres on the map for the number of lives you could populate a city with. https:\/\/t.co\/3y0yKUKcUI<\/a><\/p>\n

— Leonid \u0425\u0412 Ragozin (@leonidragozin) September 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n