The problem for Ukr yet isn't manpower.
Russia loving pukes will never admit this.... Russia has made their end game very clear.
Some part of remaining from Wagnerites long ago are used in dumbass too.
It's not like iranian shahed drones are flying off the production line ether and will have more an more problems to produce due to using backup supplies of western technology. The fact that Russia more and more reliant on Iran and North Korea is all you want to know about the weapons situation in Russia.There is one very serious and really BIG problem.
Exactly this ammunition is hardest problem for EU to deliver.
They does have damn a lot but this is purchased from Switzerland with re export clauses in contracts signed more than decade ago....
Switzerland doesn't agree to sign re export permit for these and due to clauses in purchase contracts it is impossible to send these to Ukraine IF Switzerland will not sign additional agreement and they refused to do this...
So this ammo partially might be replaced with small scale production in Norway and now recently one small production line had been launched in Germany.
While to set up new production line from German business took just 6 months, before this bireucratic processes took 12 months so instead of 6 months all process took 18 months.
These " motorbikes " are very cheap therefore Putin is very interested to launch their production in Russia. Lukashenko BTW too.
There is very big aspect that in Europe some countries despite does have a lot of cluster ammo due to " weakness culture " aren't willing not only to supply from their own stockpiles and also....doesn't agree to sign re export permits for countries their customers who had purchased these long ago too.
Fedor was a can who got rofl stomped by hendo
Artillery rounds cannot hit Kyiv with winter there an mud season. We are back to long range attacks with Russia having a harder time building key supplies such as cruise missiles an longer range rockets. The ammunition supplies will improve over the winter an North Korean will not be an endless supply line of 155 rounds due to South Korean an US concerns. Nazis in Washington can only deal with their fascism dreams for so long.
The Ukrainians Have Blown Up So Many Russian Vehicles Near Avdiivka That The Russians Are Now Attacking On Foot
Artillery from the Ukrainian 53rd Mechanized Brigade. 53rd Mechanized Brigade photo
"Russia’s staggering losses were “likely due to a combination of relative effectiveness of Ukraine’s modern hand-held anti-armor weapons, mines, uncrewed aerial vehicle-dropped munitions and precision artillery systems,” the ministry added. Both sides in the Avdiivka battle have fired cluster shells at the other, but these munitions work best against an exposed force—and in and around Avdiivka, it’s the Russians who are exposed.
Even Russia with its vast reserves of aged Cold War vehicles can’t afford to keep losing these vehicles at a rate of hundreds per week across Ukraine. Perhaps noting the Ukrainians’ success with dismounted infantry assaults in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk this summer, the Russians began holding back their surviving vehicles and, instead, sending the infantry out on foot.
“In contrast to the initial month of assaults, Russian forces are employing fewer vehicles in smaller numbers,” Ukrainian analysis group Frontelligence Insight noted. “There's a notable increase in the use of small tactical groups, consistently moving in the same areas despite prior losses.”
So far, it’s not working very well. “Ours advanced towards the coke plant [in northern Avdiivka], covering another hundred meters in the face of enemy fire,” one Russian observer reported. “Also, shock assault groups advanced from the right [southern] side of the village [of] Stepovoe on the northern side.”
“We managed to knock out the enemy with two landings. And here the progress amounted to several hundreds of meters, but achieved with considerable effort.”
“Considerable effort” in this case means potentially thousands of casualties on the bloody fields around Avdiivka. “It is plausible that Russia has suffered several thousand personnel casualties around the town since the start of October 2023,” the U.K. Defense Ministry stated.
To put that into perspective, 70,000 Ukrainian troops died in the first 18 months of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, while 120,000 Russians died in the same period. This according to an August report by The New York Times. All that is to say, around 3,900 Ukrainians and 6,700 Russians die per month, on average."
MSN
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The meatwall continues.
