Posted on 03/14/2024 6:13:00 AM PDT by dennisw
Russia went to war in Ukraine two years ago with twice as many artillery pieces as Ukraine had. But it isn’t the advantage in howitzers that really matters – it’s the advantage in shells.
The Czechs found, for Ukraine, nearly a million shells precisely when Ukraine needed those million shells the most: at the peak of Russia’s winter offensive. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Czech artillery initiative probably saved entire Ukrainian cities, by giving the Ukrainian army the firepower to resist a much bigger Russian army.
It’s no secret how Ukraine got into an artillery bind late last year. In early 2023, according to The Washington Post, the United States quietly brokered a deal with South Korea – a country with sprawling artillery factories – to purchase, likely for billions of dollars, a whopping one million shells in the standard Nato 155mm calibre, now also the standard artillery round of Ukraine.
Those million shells, heaped on top of ammunition Ukraine was getting directly from the USA and European countries, freed Ukraine’s 3,000 or so howitzers to blast away at a rate of at least 10,000 rounds a day – matching, for the first time, the daily firing rate of Russia’s 6,000 howitzers.
For months, the Ukrainians at least achieved firepower parity with the Russians. While many analysts rate Ukraine’s mid-2023 counteroffensive, which liberated just a few hundred square miles in southern and eastern Ukraine, as a profound disappointment, even modest gains are preferable to losing ground.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
And losing ground is exactly what the Ukrainians did after their counteroffensive petered out around October. That’s when the Russian army, swelling to nearly half a million deployed troops thanks to a nationwide mobilisation, went on the attack. The Russians concentrated tens of thousands of their best-equipped troops for a drive on the most vulnerable Ukrainian city: Avdiivka, a former industrial centre just a few miles from the front line in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
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Putin claimed he wanted to keep Ukraine out of NATO, yet his invasion has most likely INSURED Ukraine will one day be part of NATO.
Putin idealized and romaticized Russia’s imperial past, under the Czars and the Soviets. He chose the wrong ideals. He should have looked at post-WWII Japan, since she lost her empire, and if he had he would have found imperial ambitions were not needed for Russia to be prosperous and at peace.
MSNBC?
Why?
There is Nothing But Lies, there.
I’ll summarize this piece of sh** democrat article here
“Little Czech saved Ukraine by giving its horde of 1 million shells. Why did Ukraine not have shells, BECAUSE REPUBLICANS LOVE PUTIN”
why do you keep posting this woke democrat sh** here?
running out of propaganda from other sources? Kinda like Ukraine’s artillery shells?
You have to worship Putin because he has died a million times from cancer for our sins! Putin has had cancer everywhere over and over again. What saved him was he ate all of the Russian eggs.
And he is bouncing around in your head, his second home.
Absolutely. BUMP!
The article is from the Telegraph by way of MSN. Reading comprehension…
“The article is from the Telegraph by way of MSN“
Yes and the Telegraph is an impeccable source of course /s The British press is even worse than MSNBC when it comes to Ukraine
Ukrainians wanting their own borders, language and culture separate from the mass murder and filth of the Russian World isn’t propaganda. You may not want that sitting in your comfy armchair today but they, obviously, don’t want their children dying in Moscow’s gulags ever again.
Then you don't mind the Eastern half of Ukraine joining Russia - since they want Russian language and Russian borders?
You use the phrase “borders, culture and language” a lot
did your propaganda training textbook provided by DHS and the Democrat Party tell you: “this is a phrase that resonates with evil MAGA conservatives, use it liberally in your online propaganda efforts”
I did not mention the author or the original source.
My statement stands.
MSNBC is nothing but Propaganda and Lies (no matter where they get it)
I use that phrase a lot because it the reality of the situation. Russian chauvinists of Putin’s ilk deny the very existence of the Ukrainian people and nation separate from Russsia. Near the first thing invading Russian Nazis do after they destroy an international border and occupy Ukrainian land is tear down Ukrainian language signs. Then they replace them with Russian language signs. This is the reality. I realize you have so much invested in a fantasy world that you will never see these simple truths. Unfortunately, Ukrainians and Russians aren’t so lucky.
struck a nerve, have I?
You are rated Klown Putin Monkey. And Bad Vlad is your Organ grinder.
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