And no Denys Davydov... 
And no Denys Davydov...
From the Washington Post’s, “Inside the monumental, stop-start effort to arm Ukraine”
It says (link to full article here (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/23/ukraine-weapons-biden/)):
“...the initial war supply operation clearly wasn’t built for the long haul.
As the grueling conflict continues with no end in sight, it has exposed flaws in U.S. strategic planning for its own future battles, and revealed significant gaps in the American and NATO defense industrial base.
Stocks of many key weapons and munitions are near exhaustion, and wait times for new production of missiles stretch for months and, in some cases, years.”
Ukrainian armed forces retreat to the outskirts of Marinka with heavy losses: details
Since 20 December, units of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which occupies positions in the western part of the city, have suffered heavy losses in Marinka.
A howitzer artillery division of the AFU with 122mm D-30 guns suffered serious damage during counter-battery fighting.
According to the “Military Chronicle” serious losses (https://t.me/milchronicles/1417) were recorded in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th airborne assault battalions of the 79th AFU brigade, reconnaissance and tank companies of the Armed forces of Ukraine.
The number of killed and seriously wounded in these units since December 15 is estimated at between 350 and 460. Due to the serious losses, the brigade urgently had to be reinforced and mobilised from the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, and a security company and engineering units reclassified as assault troops were also sent to the line of battle.
According to the military sources,the key reason for the large losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Marinka was the activity of artillery and armoured vehicles of the Russian Armed Forces. T-72B3 tanks are rapidly advancing towards the western outskirts of the city with the support of drones, allowing crews to reconnoitre dangerous positions and fire on firing points in buildings with minimal risk.
According to radio intercepts by the AFU, units of the 79th airborne infantry battalion have recorded shortages of communication and surveillance equipment, ammunition for machine guns and machine guns and wound dressing supplies, as well as quadcopters, which were used for reconnaissance of AFU positions. Also, AFU units complain of an acute shortage of anti-tank weapons - grenade launchers and ammunition for them are in short supply.
Due to the rapidly deteriorating tactical situation, since the evening of 23 December the Ukrainian armed forces have been amassing their remaining forces on the western outskirts of Marinka near Shakhtyorskaya and Poligraphicheskaya Streets, where field headquarters are gradually being moved from the central fortified area.
In the event of a failure at the last line of defence, Ukrainian army units plan to retreat to reserve positions to the fortified area near the Marinka dam, where batteries of BM-21 Grad complex were previously stationed. However, control over the entire city (including the outskirts) in this case will be definitively lost.
#Source (https://t.me/ukraina_ru/123872)