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| 'Using up a Week's Worth in 20 Hours': Ukrainian troops are fast running out of weapons; Germany and France fail to send promised military aid | |
| 2022-03-23 | |
| [TheTimes] Ukraine has said it is fast running out of the weapons it needs to destroy Russian aircraft and tanks and urged Germany and France to honour their pledges and send more arms. The defending forces are far surpassing western expectations by stalling the Russians’ advance and preventing them from taking key cities. Western officials said that Ukraine was “obviously expending a lot of ordnance”, and more than anticipated. They had expected to be supporting a more limited insurgency by this stage. The Pentagon said that Ukraine had begun to shift momentum in some areas to regain ground and were “in places and at times going on an offensive”. Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, told friends last week that the military had “two weeks” before
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| Posted by:Phing Phinter3080 |
| #9 If the Ukrainians use a lot of Russian designed/based equipment, all they have to do is pick up from the stuff the Russians leave behind, abandon, or that they don't fry when shooting up those pockets they isolate. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-03-23 21:26 |
| #8 #7 Could well be Soros is running things. The bastard's probably made another billion in the last week buying up Russian debt and rubles at basement prices. Probably kicking back 10 percent to Putin. Nonsense. Russia has an outstanding warrant for Soros' arrest. |
| Posted by: badanov 2022-03-23 19:44 |
| #7 Could well be Soros is running things. The bastard's probably made another billion in the last week buying up Russian debt and rubles at basement prices. Probably kicking back 10 percent to Putin. |
| Posted by: Thor Sinatra2003 2022-03-23 19:14 |
| #6 An actual president is no longer required. We now have a consortium of oligarchs, intelligence community experts, and supporting leftest politicians. I think my late aged intelligence veteran remote relative wanted all those guys prosecuted for impersonating an intelligence agency. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-23 19:07 |
| #5 /\ An actual president is no longer required. We now have a consortium of oligarchs, intelligence community experts, and supporting leftest politicians. Witless notional President and VP figureheads are now the order of the day. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-03-23 18:53 |
| #4 Same as the US. The only difference is when the US does it the Putinistas keep saying "Help! We're being oppressed!" anyway. I wish we had a real president. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-23 18:30 |
| #3 Germany and France doing what they have done since the 1990s in NATO. Talk, posture, and not much else. |
| Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-03-23 13:51 |
| #2 Because the leaders of France and Germany are so honorable. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-03-23 12:58 |
| #1 [yahoo] Ukraine 'running out of weapons' as other countries 'fail to send promised aid' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-03-23 12:24 |