Berletic: Ukraine's Western Sponsors Running Out of Ammo & Out of Time Archived Message
Posted by sashimi on September 2, 2023, 8:17 am, in reply to "AM: Rus Repels Attacks Verbovoye, Advances Bakhmut; Demands in West to End War;Erdogan to Meet Putin"
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for August 31, 2023: * The Western media is trying to spin Ukrainian gains within the security or "gray zone" ahead of Russia's first of several defense lines as a "turning point" in the offensive; * Ukraine's offensive potential has been exhausted with the West struggling to find arms and ammunition to replace Ukrainian losses; * The West is even struggling to pull together large numbers of antiquated and inappropriate equipment like the post-WW2 Leopard 1 tank; * Meanwhile Ukraine continues conducting drone strikes in Russia, achieving questionable PR value and little else; * A recent Ukrainian drone strike on an airport hosting Il-76 strategic airlift aircraft damaged 2. To put that in context, Russia operates over 100 of these aircraft and has production capacity to build up to 12 annually; * Ukraine's sponsors are unable to sustain the conflict "for as long as it takes," and only for as long as they have arms and ammunition to supply Ukraine in sufficient quantities;
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