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Outgunned Ukraine Needs More Weapons Fast as Russia Advances, Officials Say
The Wall Street Journal ^ | June 10, 2022 | James Hookway

Posted on 06/10/2022 5:46:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Ukrainian leaders are warning that the fate of the industrial heartlands in their country’s east depends on the amount of Western-supplied heavy weaponry that can be placed on the front lines in Donbas, as Russia presses on with its attempts to expand its control to Severodonetsk and other strategic cities.

The entire area has come under heavy Russian fire, Serhiy Haidai, the Ukrainian governor of the eastern Luhansk region, which along with Donetsk makes up Donbas, said Friday. “Fierce street fights continue in Severodonetsk,” he said on the Telegram social-media platform, adding that key routes such as the road between the eastern cities of Lysychansk and Bakhmut remain under Ukrainian control as the fighting turns into a war of attrition.

How much longer the Ukrainian forces can hold back the Russian advance will depend in large part on how many Western artillery systems they can deploy.

There are now five systems placed near the front lines made by members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Thursday, with Polish-AHS Krab artillery units supplementing M777 and FH70 howitzers, Caesar self-propelled howitzers and U.S.-made and Norwegian-supplied M109A3 howitzers.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: nomreaidforukraine; russiaiswining
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1 posted on 06/10/2022 5:46:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

That forty billion dollars provided by US taxpayers disappeared fast.


2 posted on 06/10/2022 5:48:50 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti-Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: chief lee runamok

10 billion to Ukes and 30 billion in corruption. They are getting greedy.


3 posted on 06/10/2022 5:49:53 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice -can put the truth above narrative )
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They need heavy artillery so they can drag the US into a nuclear holocaust.


4 posted on 06/10/2022 5:52:08 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Where is Biden leading us and what's with the hand basket")
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To: BipolarBob

If that were the goal then this is how it would look.

I think it’s the goal.


5 posted on 06/10/2022 5:57:05 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: chief lee runamok

10% for the big guy.


6 posted on 06/10/2022 5:57:19 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

By all means let’s prolong the carnage.

No I am not an appeaser. I hate how people are suffering there. But the Ukraine government is worse in some ways than Russia - it is obviously the moneybag for the Biden Crime Family. Russia isn’t. So why prolong this miserable conflict.

Very sorry for the Ukrainians.


7 posted on 06/10/2022 5:57:42 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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8 posted on 06/10/2022 5:58:36 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I wonder how they expect this heavy military equipment to be delivered to the front without it being intercepted by Russia?


9 posted on 06/10/2022 6:12:24 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: MinorityRepublican

Whatever is most disruptive to the globalists is ok by me.

The commies are now in the west.


10 posted on 06/10/2022 6:19:04 PM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Soros stooges have assured us that Russia lost the war on Ukraine won.

I refuse to believe otherwise.


11 posted on 06/10/2022 6:19:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: Persevero
But the Ukraine government is worse in some ways than Russia

Ukraine never honored the Minsk II accord and they never intended to. Ukraine and Russia signed an agreement that stated Donbass would be a special autonomous region within Ukraine and they would have elections by the end of 2015. It's now 2022 and there still haven't been elections in Donbass yet. I gave up on Ukraine back in 2017. Unlike me, Putin has shown extraordinary patience on this. I say throw 'em to the wolves.

12 posted on 06/10/2022 6:36:08 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: MinorityRepublican

No.

Go beg to Europe.


13 posted on 06/10/2022 6:37:22 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Return our money !


14 posted on 06/10/2022 6:38:54 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: MinorityRepublican

40,000,000,000 just doesn’t go as far as it used to these days…


15 posted on 06/10/2022 6:45:02 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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So much lies from the media. Heavy weaponry need a lot of training before they can be used effectively. Lie after lie from Zelensky and western leaders. Weapons don’t men squat if you don’t know how to use them.


16 posted on 06/10/2022 6:45:03 PM PDT by Nashcash
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To: chief lee runamok

Right down the Zelensky-Biden rathole.


17 posted on 06/10/2022 6:53:12 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: Rural_Michigan

“Whatever is most disruptive to the globalists is ok by me.”

You got that right !


18 posted on 06/10/2022 6:57:32 PM PDT by A strike ("My country sux" is grounds for asylum?!?)
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To: PhiloBedo
12% for the big guy.

Putin's Price Hike.

19 posted on 06/10/2022 6:57:49 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: jimwatx
"I wonder how they expect this heavy military equipment to be delivered to the front without it being intercepted by Russia?"

Russia has highly accurate cruise missiles, both subsonic and hypersonic and has been blowing up a lot of foreign military arms once they are on the territory of the Ukraine. The Western media has been ignoring their use and effectiveness. Russia has launched 1500 of them which has been a shock and awe effect on Western military experts who are used to purchasing overpriced weapons and using them sparingly.

20 posted on 06/10/2022 7:12:07 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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