Posted on 05/02/2024 5:22:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The five-month wait before US Congress approved $61 billion in military aid to Ukraine may have caused lasting damage that will be felt on the frontlines for months to come.
Russian forces have used the “artillery drought” hampering Ukraine’s defenses since December to push forward on the eastern front near Avdiivka, making the largest advance since the early months of the war. Moscow’s progress has prompted warnings from senior Ukrainian military officials of a possible threat to Kyiv’s supply lines and hubs in the east, which are now perilously close to being in range of superior Russian firepower.
The bleak news of progress comes ahead of an anticipated Russian offensive in late May, which could threaten Ukraine’s presence in the Donetsk region and hard-fought, if modest, gains towards the occupied port city of Mariupol. Russia has thrown vast resources at weak Ukrainian defenses across the eastern frontlines, pushing toward three key points: the vital military hub of Pokrovsk, west of Avdiivka; the strategic heights of Chasiv Yar, near Bakhmut; and Kurakhove in the southeast.
On February 17, Ukraine announced it had withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town battled over for a decade, one which Russia appears to have sacrificed hundreds of troops to take. Yet Moscow’s advance did not stop there. Over the next 10 weeks, as a CNN map and analysis by the Ukrainian monitoring group DeepStateMap shows, Russian forces slowly took village after village to Avdiivka’s west, taking advantage of Kyiv’s failure to build fortifications and reluctance to publicly state the extent of their territorial losses in that area.
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That meme is so perfect.
We were told the Biden Admn didn’t wait for approval from Congress and the Pentagon moved on everything long ago.
Which is it?
Little Creeper Johnson must want more.
They are Prepping the people for another Ukraine package.
There’s never enough Free Money.
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Pooty-Poot dead from breast cancer yet?
But Russian egg prices are still high
No amount of weapons of ammo will matter since Ukraine is running out of manpower, especially experienced soldiers.
Ukraine can only lost more lives and territory by continuing the war.
Good one! I’m saving that.
LOL! is the you, Mom?
There goes a bunch of it last night.
https://x.com/warmonitors/status/1785819907352904043?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA
Hopefully the Ukrainians can kill more armor and manpower before the Russian three day war is over and Ukraine runs out of ammo.
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Like what the Nazis did to Warsaw in 1939. The worst bloodbath for the Ukrainians is yet to come.
Wait and see.
More glorious victories for Ukraine and Biden as we intercept Russian 1940s and 1950s gravity bombs outfitted with Russian GPS glide bomb packages with 6 million dollars a shot Patriot missiles .
Unlikely. The Ukrainians know that they will have to fight another 10 years if they have to.
Putin's life expectancy is around 10 years.
But Zeeper Freepers tell constantly that YouCrayne is WINNING.
Ukraine needs troops more than weapons. Macron has again mentioned recently that he is considering sending French troops to Ukraine.
Biden (aka Merkin Muffley) needs to get more skin in the game and send our American boys to fight those evil Russkies. If we don’t defeat the Russkies in Ukraine, they will invade Poland and then the rest of Europe. Next is the good old USA as Russian troops cross over from Siberia into Alaska.
The Russians stole the 2016 election for Trump. Time for a title Biden payback.
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