Ncdjd2 wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 9:29 am
This article I find very informative, it dispenses with the propaganda and emotion and focuses on what actually going on in Ukraine at the moment from a military perspective. Written by a former lieutenant colonel from the US army.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/04/can ... unt-on-it/
From what I can see the Russians have now got their sh1t together both tactically and logistically and slowly moving westwards from the east. If they make a move later on Odessa, Ukraine as a country will become landlocked. The weaponry being shipped in by Nato and other western nations seem to be getting blown up on a nightly basis by both ballistic missiles and RU aviation according to nightly Russian military updates ( if true ) An S300 air defence system retails for 150 million euros, how many of these donated by Western countries are now burnt out piles of scrap ?
I wouldn't read too much into that. For a start, they're assuming that it
would be Ukranians training Ukranians (note use of future conditional tense) when in fact it has been and is (past, and now present tense) various Western forces that are providing the training. The article also seems to put considerable weight on the use of tanks, when in fact the weaponry being supplied at the moment is "everything but tanks" ... and they're not being blown up every day and every night.
The article also makes no reference to the equivalent situation on the Russia side: i.e. that the Russians also have to train up a whole new army of conscripts if they want to keep the effort going, and they haven't even started the process because, y'know, they're not at war. Not only that, but if they decide to go to war, they'll also have to equip those soldiers with guns and ammunition and various weaponry, of which they have a limited - and dwindling - supply.
When all is said and done, since the article was written, Russia has lost more territory than it's gained, and the number of "suspect" incidents at critical infrastructure in Russia has increased, so I think it's pretty fair to say that the wind is firmly in Ukrainian sails at the moment.