Posted on 07/12/2022 12:20:56 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
But Russia has adjusted during the second phase of the war by hiding its men behind its fearsome artillery. “Russian artillery has been the decisive factor, but only because it’s had to be the decisive factor,” says Mason Clark, a senior analyst and Russia team lead at the Institute for the Study of War.
Russia has at least 10 times as many artillery and missile systems as Ukraine, and in some places on the front line the disparity is closer to 20 to 1, former Defense Minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk says.
With a range of hundreds of miles Russian missiles can strike anywhere in Ukraine. Recent attacks in the western region of Lviv were a short distance from the Polish border. On June 27, President Volodymyr Zelensky estimated that Russia had used “almost 2,800 different cruise missiles” and “hundreds of thousands” of air bombs and rockets against Ukraine.
In contrast, Ukraine’s Western partners have imposed political constraints on the use of donated systems for attacks on Russian territory, and the range of Ukraine’s weapons is limited even on its own soil. Ukraine’s surface-to-surface systems can reach some 75 miles away at maximum with its Vilkha and Tochka missiles, but those are in short supply, Mr. Zagorodnyuk says. Along much of the front line, Ukraine fights with howitzers that have a range of only some 15 miles. Russia often relies on similar systems, but its ground-based rockets can also reach much farther into Ukrainian-controlled territory.
With less ammunition to use, “the Ukrainians have to be much more careful, much more selective, and they can’t hit the same number of targets”. The Russians often have multiple posts behind the front line performing the same supportive functions, so even a successful Ukrainian strike on a target may not cause much disruption.
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Ukraine ping
Biden’s slow-walking of ammo and equipment to Ukraine as a quid pro quo for Putin’s payments to Hunter through Burisma via his lapdog (and Burisma’s owner) Zlochevsky continues to pay dividends. In 2014, the Ukrainian parliament impeached Viktor Yanukovich for attempting to make himself dictator and for massacring the demonstrators at Maidan Square. Zlochevsky, Burisma’s owner, served in Yanukovich’s cabinet. When Yanukovich fled Ukraine to rendezvous with his master Putin in Moscow, Zlochevsky also ran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Zlochevsky
Note that Yanukovich and Zlochevsky were in a pro-Russian administration, which is to say they wanted Ukraine to be a Russian province. Even assuming Zlochevsky was acting in his own capacity rather than as a cutout for Putin, the reason he paid Biden was to assist Russia in its quest to conquer Ukraine, not help Ukraine remain independent.
But Russian propagandists will tell you that “Ukraine” paid Biden to get US aid. In reality, Putin may have funneled bribes to Biden using Burisma’s owner as a middleman.
Too bad.
Even the WSJ headline writers can’t use proper English. They are outgunned BY Russia, not AGAINST Russia. smh
Wow that’s terrible…anyways
When did it become the west’s responsibility to pull Ukraine’s chestnuts out of the fire?
https://t.me/s/rezident_ua/13173
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Our source in the OP said that the last conversation between the President of Ukraine and the British Prime Minister was difficult, Johnson made it clear to Zelensky that the West’s attitude to the war would begin to change in the future. The promised tanks and planes should not be expected, weapons sabotage will intensify, and equipment will be transferred pointwise in order to stabilize the front.
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““Russian artillery has been the decisive factor, but only because it’s had to be the decisive factor,” says Mason Clark, a senior analyst”
Only sensitive American woke-tard generals prefer to use infantry instead of artillery. We had platoons of men walking around Afghanistan, and when engaged, rather than call arty or air, we send in a flying clown car packed with SEALS as a reaction team.
Of course Russia is using artillery against dug in nazi positions. Why wouldn’t you, rather than sending in grunts?
Russia and Ukraine have something similar to our second amendment? /s?
That’s a real bummer about the artillery blowing them nazi galicians to smithereens... Anyway, I need to get my tires rotated again. I’m going to try tomorrow because Saturdays are always a zoo.
We owe Ukraine NOTHING. It’s not OUR fight, it’s not OUR neighborhood, it’s not part of OUR national interest.
The west is terrified of a Russian nuke response. Hence, they don’t want to win, just to prolong the fight.
If Ukraine loses that area, the Russians will outpace us in borscht! We will find ourselves in a borscht GAP!
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People keep talking about sums like $40 billion and such, but what Biden has actually delivered is (by the 1st of July) only $2.4B worth of weapons.
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/
Slow walking and timid!
The Institute for the Study of War are well paid cheerleaders for war and a tool of the military-industrial complex. The blood will flow and the dollars will gush.
Biden and company need something to keep Americans from remebering those abandoned in Afghanistan, or our own borders, our the January 6 political prisoners, or The Steal, etc....
Remember, this November encourage people to fill up their gas tanks and shop for groceries before they vote.
There should be a UN Mandate that one side of a war doesn’t have better weapons than the other side.
Circus/monkeys. Not ours.
How many billions have been recieved by the grifters?
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