Posted on 06/12/2022 11:03:00 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The euphoria that accompanied Ukraine’s unforeseen early victories against bumbling Russian troops is fading as Moscow adapts its tactics, recovers its stride and asserts its overwhelming firepower against heavily outgunned Ukrainian forces.
Around 200 Ukrainian soldiers are now being killed every day, up from 100 late last month, an aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC on Friday — meaning that as many as 1,000 Ukrainians are being taken out of the fight every day, including those who are injured.
But the odds against the Ukrainians are starting to look overwhelming, said Danylyuk, the government adviser.
“The Russians are using long-range artillery against us, often without any response, because we don’t have the means,” he said.
Ukraine has now almost completely run out of ammunition for the Soviet-era weapons systems that were the mainstay of its arsenal, and the Eastern European countries that maintained the same systems have run out of surplus supplies to donate, Danylyuk said.
Russia is firing as many as 50,000 artillery rounds a day into Ukrainian positions, and the Ukrainians can hit back with only around 5,000 to 6,000 rounds a day, he said. The United States has committed to deliver 220,000 rounds of ammunition — enough to match Russian firepower for around four days.
The majority of the American M777 howitzer artillery guns that U.S. officials said would enable Ukraine to match Russian firepower are now in use on the battlefield, according to the Pentagon. Yet the Russians continue to advance.
“I’d be shocked if the Russians are sustaining casualties anywhere close to what the Ukrainians are right now,” Alperovitch said.
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Haven’t the kleptocrats in DC and Kiev evacuated all their assets alread? They’ve had plenty of time.
Does this mean we are required now to delete the Ukrainian flag emojis?
Get them the damn equipment.
As effective as the strategic oil reserve releases.
Our money was supposed to be wasted on bullets, not going up cokehead Zelensky’s nose.
Just looking at some online retailers their 5.45x39 is about $0.60-$0.80 per round. That’s pretty steep. And the USA can’t help, throwing our funny money at them is not going to make ammunition magically appear.
One needs to read Washington Post just like citizens of China or the Soviet Union learned to read the People’s Daily or Pravda, ie) between the lines.
If they are saying it, it means the central committee has decided on a new policy.
Oh no - Can’t George Washington Zelensky, the leader of the Free World just demand that NATO send him what he needs?
LOL. in 100 days, we just gave Ukraine over 2/3 of the entire Russian annual defense budget. How much more do they need, even accounting for their massive corruption?
Unfortunately, those ammunition and oil reserves were reserved for American emergencies, not being pissed away on claptrap political adventures.
Russians who began this are war criminals and murderers.
Aid to Ukraine has just prolonged the agony, delayed the inevitable and enriched the corrupt.
$40 billion of our money should buy a lot of white flags.
The US State dept. brought about a lot of needless death and destruction when it broke up the Minsk Accord.
Before this is over the US govt. is going to get kicked out of Europe by popular demand.
Mark it down.
As long as the Ukes are still fighting the Biden corruption can remain under wraps.
https://punchng.com/zelensky-ignored-warnings-about-russian-invasion-biden-says/
The fix is in. Zelensky takes a dive, moves to his place in Sunny Isles, FL. Everybody who could spill the beans on Hunter goes to Gstaad.
That should be a warning to us all.
Ammo is still available and gun is useless without it.
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