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Russia's ability to outmatch Ukraine with artillery on battlefield significantly reduced
Sky News UK ^ | 12/6/2024 | Deborah Haynes

Posted on 12/06/2024 2:09:44 PM PST by marcusmaximus

Russia's ability to outmatch Ukraine with artillery barrages on the battlefield has significantly reduced to just 1.5 Russian rounds for every Ukrainian shell fired back, Western officials have said.

This compares with Russian forces launching at least five times as many artillery rounds as Ukraine could in the war previously - with the ratio at times much higher even than that.

The Western officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, put the levelling out down to a "wide variety of factors".

These factors include limitations in Russia's defence production lines, difficulties with transporting more rounds to the frontline by rail, and strikes by Ukrainian drones against strategic stockpiles of Russian and North Korean ammunition supplies inside Russia.

In addition, they said Western supplies of ammunition were helping to bolster Ukraine's armoury.

However, vast quantities of Russian glide bombs appear to be compensating for the reduction in the country's advantage on the artillery front, the Western officials signalled.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


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To: delta7

Your Biden gave Putin the green light to invade Ukraine in a “minor incursion” and your Putin and his crappy army screwed up the whole deal.


41 posted on 12/06/2024 3:26:32 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

42 posted on 12/06/2024 3:28:49 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: marcusmaximus

Russia hasn’t captured any meaningful town or city in 3 years. Just some villages that they’ve bombed to rubble.
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Mariupol, Bakmut, Avidivka, Ugledar,……like the energizer bunny….and there is nothing the collective West can do.


43 posted on 12/06/2024 3:32:00 PM PST by delta7
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To: marcusmaximus

“Let us know when Russia conquers a real city.”

All the Russians would capture would be rubble.

Nowadays the Russians simply try to batter Ukrainian frontlines. Modern war is too destructive to make it worthwhile to capture a city.


44 posted on 12/06/2024 3:32:02 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: delta7
None of those are major cities, let alone a regional capital.

And it took 3 months for Russia to occupy Mariupol which is only 30 miles from the Russian border.
45 posted on 12/06/2024 3:40:42 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: delta7

The war will be over soon. Russia won this one. She won when Putin and Xi shook hands. With China’s backing Putin can’t lose., It is a question of time. It took time to weed out the corruption in the Russian Army. Now its a lean mean machine that will grind Ukraine to dust—in time. Now, in Syria, Russia may well lose—and we will have Isis 2.01. Turkey and Israel made this (with Biden’s help) and its going to be bloody work to root out the Islamist fanatics this time. We humbled Russia but a revived Turkey may not be what we expect.


46 posted on 12/06/2024 3:42:13 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: marcusmaximus
The Western officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity,...

Ah yes. The ubiquitous "unnamed officials" that are supposed to be believed.

47 posted on 12/06/2024 3:42:58 PM PST by glorgau
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To: wildcard_redneck

Its about men more than anything else. All the foreign aid to Ukraine has not been able to match Russias military resources at any point in this war. Ukraine has always been the underdog.


48 posted on 12/06/2024 3:45:18 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: wildcard_redneck

“And the front keeps marching west while the missile and drone attacks are ever-increasing.”
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You’d think so...

https://youtu.be/IgrvgNoWvMs?si=4ai2YH99_0W37P9s


49 posted on 12/06/2024 3:58:59 PM PST by Does so (♭♫♪ yes we are able, our spirits are thine♫♬♪...🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat...≣)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

“They did get the North Koreans to help them”
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Worked out just fine...

https://youtu.be/JGPlwEV5jAU?si=d6374GVjPKe_H5Xr


50 posted on 12/06/2024 4:04:35 PM PST by Does so (♭♫♪ yes we are able, our spirits are thine♫♬♪...🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat...≣)
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To: marcusmaximus; wildcard_redneck
Kyiv in 3 days! Bring your parade uniform!

Moscow in 3 days! Bring your Special Russia Parade Sock!


51 posted on 12/06/2024 4:24:50 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus; ConservativeMind; BobL; Rocco DiPippo; wildcard_redneck; Pikachu_Dad; ...
With such a great advantage, why hasn’t Russia captured a single Ukrainian regional capital city in 3 years?

The press-ganged North Korean women are lousy fighters.

52 posted on 12/06/2024 4:32:17 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus

When they were communists... With a political credo similar to islam and globalists...


53 posted on 12/06/2024 4:42:23 PM PST by Axenolith (BAGSTER! Pretty sure you can do an End Zone dance up there now! 🤣)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I side with Russia because the leftist media, Democrats, and RINOs side with Ukraine.


54 posted on 12/06/2024 4:52:10 PM PST by Eternally Anti-Globalist (Language, Borders, Culture)
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To: marcusmaximus

The War is over. No need to give another red cent to YouCraynee.


55 posted on 12/06/2024 6:11:21 PM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: ConservativeMind

Remember 70-1 but go with the 50% if it makes you feel better


56 posted on 12/06/2024 6:15:57 PM PST by blitz128
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To: marcusmaximus

No one requested your endless spamming for the corrupt Uke regime.

Or, did the DNC/Soros?Bibet* arrange for funding your spamming?


57 posted on 12/06/2024 9:12:36 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

As the article notes, Russia has compensated with glide bombs. However, that mode of attack puts a heck of a lot of hours on the Russian planes’ airframes.

Also, part of the change in ratio is due to increased shell production by the Euro’s.


58 posted on 12/06/2024 9:35:50 PM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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