(03-24-2022, 07:57 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal this morning.  Sorry if you encounter a pay wall.  
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/weapons-for...1648066417

RZESZOW, Poland—Day and night, truck convoys rumble through once quiet Polish border towns and villages. Giant military transport planes land several times an hour on the single runway at a local airport. Their cargo: weapons for the Ukrainian forces fighting to beat back Russia’s invading army.

Western security officials say their strategy initially envisaged equipping a nascent Ukrainian insurgency—recalling the transfer of weapons to mujahedeen fighters who defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan—that would employ guerrilla tactics against Russian occupiers.

Instead, because Ukraine’s military has managed to keep Moscow’s forces at bay in much of the country, the task has become equipping a regular army engaged in a large-scale conventional war.

“The Ukrainians are expending a lot of ordnance, and this is more than we anticipated,” said a Western security official. “We are trying to step up the flow of weapons to meet that new requirement and there are constant shortages.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-hum...krainenato

NATO estimated Russia has lost as much as one-fifth of its combat forces sent to Ukraine in about a month of fighting as President Biden and alliance leaders gathered in Brussels for a summit to discuss providing further support to Kyiv to repel the Russian invasion.

Between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine and up to 40,000 Russian troops in total have been killed, wounded, taken prisoner or are missing, said a senior military official from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Russia may also have lost 10% of its equipment, impairing Moscow’s ability to maintain its pace of operations, said another NATO official.
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It's becoming more and more clear that if we can manage to supply the Ukrianian army, they can actually win this war.  Unbelievable.  

(03-24-2022, 10:04 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote: I had read that Russia has lost more troops in a month than the US lost in 20 years in Afghanistan. That's just crazy. Along with what Marty shared about how much ordinance the Ukrainian army is going through I'd say they have the upper hand.

I watched the first episode of Zelenskyy's sitcom on Netflix last night. It has a lot of nice shots of the city of Kyiv and it's hard to believe the city (and the country) is being shelled and destroyed.

It's all propaganda, Russian side is saying the opposite. The truth is in the middle somewhere. The arms movements are probably real as Russia said they bombed the base to destroy the arms being held there.

Ukraine won't win the war unless you define winning as Russia leaving Ukraine. Russia will leave, they can't really occupy them as it would take too much man power.

Look at the war maps that are being maintained online. Russia is using their normal strategy of cutting off retreat and the areas with the large Ukranian army are cut off for the most part. It's a slow process and they are taking loses in some areas but they aren't being driven back.



Lots of propaganda about civilians being targeted and killed. Russia then says Azov is keeping people in their basements and using civilian buildings and the people as human shields. Some of it is definitely true of using civilian buildings as there are videos but who knows about the rest. Russia put out a bunch of propaganda about people being freed by their troops and a bunch of people fleeing to the Russian border instead of Ukraine held points.

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