Outgunned Ukraine Needs More Weapons Fast as Russia Advances, Officials Say

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Ukrainian leaders are warning that the fate of the industrial heartlands in their country’s east depends on the amount of Western-supplied heavy weaponry that can be placed on the front lines in Donbas, as Russia presses on with its attempts to expand its control to Severodonetsk and other strategic cities.

The entire area has come under heavy Russian fire, Serhiy Haidai, the Ukrainian governor of the eastern Luhansk region, which along with Donetsk makes up Donbas, said Friday. “Fierce street fights continue in Severodonetsk,” he said on the Telegram social-media platform, adding that key routes such as the road between the eastern cities of Lysychansk and Bakhmut remain under Ukrainian control as the fighting turns into a war of attrition.

How much longer the Ukrainian forces can hold back the Russian advance will depend in large part on how many Western artillery systems they can deploy.

There are now five systems placed near the front lines made by members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Thursday, with Polish-AHS Krab artillery units supplementing M777 and FH70 howitzers, Caesar self-propelled howitzers and U.S.-made and Norwegian-supplied M109A3 howitzers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/outgunned-ukraine-needs-more-weapons-fast-as-russia-advances-officials-say/ar-AAYiQRF

[onecaliberal]

2. I had the same thought.

[uponit7771]

4. They're not, Ukraine is losing a lot of troops but so is Putrid difference being Putrid can't ...

... replace his troops via mobilization because that word alone would strike total fear in the hearts of Russians.

I've lurked OSINT twitter too much and the same theme comes out that Russia is losing shit tons of troops that aren't being replaced and now Ukr can counterattack in the south because Putrid has to move forces to the north in Donbas.

I hate it to my core that Ukr has to lose one solider not less 100 a day but they fight to the last breath is beyond bravery.

Slave Ukraine

[FloridaBlues]

3. Don't have a good feeling at all about the direction and how long before some type

Of peace arrangement will occur. Not much will be left in that country. By the time Russian shell entire country.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Putin just wants the land. He doesn't care about people or infrastructure.

He will have a no man's land, but it will be part of Russia.

I don't have a good feeling either. Putin will keep going until all his troops are dead. And the Ukrainian people are dead or gone to other countries. The land will be ruined for a long time. No more breadbasket for the world.

[Chuuku Davis]

6. The EU and NATO should be embarassed.

At the slow and small amt of heavy weapons supplied.

And Germany should be booted from NATO. They are puty's pawn.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. From another site: the Ukrainians have fired off a lot of ammo

They’re on their way to depleting not only their own pre-war stocks of USSR/Warsaw Pact ammo, but also a lot of the gifted ordinance they got from other former Warsaw Pact army stocks.

[roamer65]

8. Too bad Ukraine didn't have the neutron bomb.

A few well placed ones just over the border…

Grrrrr.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. They need air support.

[Calculating]

10. Give them what they need

And stop slowly trickling in aid while the whole country gets destroyed. These weapons in our stockpile we're made to kill Russians, put em to use