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    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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