Analysis: A key withdrawal shows Ukraine doesn't have enough artillery to fight Russia

AP via Yahoo ^ | February 20th, 2024 | SAMYA KULLAB

[Mariner]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dwindling ammunition threatens Ukraine’s hold on the 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line under withering assault by Russian artillery. Defensive lines are in jeopardy.

Ukrainian forces withdrew from the city of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region on Saturday after daily Russian onslaughts from three directions for the last four months.

Avdiivka was a stronghold for Ukrainian positions deeper inside the country, away from Russia. A frontline city ever since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, the fortified settlement with a maze of trenches and tunnels served to protect important — less strengthened — logistical hubs further west.

Its seizure boosts Russian morale and confirms that the Kremlin’s troops are now setting the pace in the fight, to the dismay of Ukrainian forces who have managed only incremental gains since their counteroffensive last year.

CONGRESSIONAL INACTION...

DWINDLING SUPPLIES

The Associated Press interviewed over a dozen commanders, including heads of artillery units, in the war’s most intense combat zones in the weeks ahead of Avdiivka’s fall. They said shortages, which have always plagued Ukrainian forces since the full-scale invasion, grew acute last autumn.

Dwindling supplies of Western-supplied long-range artillery in particular means Ukrainian forces are inhibited from striking high-value targets deep behind Russian lines, where heavy equipment and personnel are accumulated.

For weeks, Ukrainian forces across the frontline have complained about critical shortages in ammunition, with some artillery batteries fighting with only 10 percent of supply they need. Desperate to economize shells, military leaders ordered units to fire at only precise targets. But commanders on the ground say this is barely enough to restrain their better supplied enemy. Concerns are growing that without military aid the fall of Avdiivka may be repeated in other parts of the frontline.

[EEGator]

I’ve been to Scranton. It’s a ****hole.

[Karl Spooner]

My prayer is that the Lord would raise up God-fearing elites, rulers and leaders for the West.

I truly believe that he found one of them, for Russia. Nothing has worked to even weaken them. I consider that a miracle and I think the priest in the gif is dead right. I know you posted an article on how strict Russia is on perversion concerning children, you know that has to count for a lot with the Lord.

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[Reverend Wright]

Russia is the only country in the West that has the demographic, geographic, industrial and military heft to stand against Globohomo.

God bless Orban, but the Color Revolution will come for him. We were told Poland was so based, and now they have DONALD TUSK as Prime Minister.

Putin is not perfect, but the West is well on the way to Men of Sodom / Men of Gibeah scenarios.

At that point I expect the Lord will act.

[Reverend Wright]

“I’ve been to Scranton. It’s a ****hole.”

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Yes. And they have a Heritage District. So they can preserve the ****hole character of the city .

[Reverend Wright]

Scranton Heritage District.

https://scrantonplanning.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=d90dae19b0e844f685a66ecd3304566c

[Karl Spooner]

God bless Orban, but the Color Revolution will come for him.

If Russia takes all of Ukraine there may be an opportunity for Hungary escape the EU. It has been in my prayers. I think Russia would protect him.

[Firehath]

Mariupol

Bakhmut

Avdiika

Nothing new here

Gog kkhhaahhbbhhoohhmm usa

MaGog kkhhaahhbbhhoohhmm nato

Rev13

[Reverend Wright]

Hungary is landlocked.

I don’t think there is any escape from the EU, unless the EU collapses.

I could see NATO collapsing at the end of this. But that might cause the EU countries to cling to it even more desperately.

The only possibility is if Ukraine gets totally chopped up, and Transcarpathia is returned to Hungary.

Then they would be bordered on a Russian controlled former Ukraine and might be willing to eject from the EU.

[DownInFlames]

Its not a civil war. Russia is the aggressor of a sovereign country.

[Firehath]

Russia / nato

Obombo said

10 years ago

” Things will get worse “

” Before they get better “

Gog worse usa

MaGog worse nato

Rev 13

We need regime ‘ change ‘ here

[SaveFerris]

[They live inside a “narrative”, and they believe that if they control the means of communication, that their “narrative” can become reality as long as all other narratives (what they now call “misinformation” can be blocked. “]

Yet another reason I don't take the jab nor anything else that they sell when they're the people telling me that a man in a woman's dress is actually "a woman" - I'm so uncooperative.....

[metmom]

They live inside a "narrative", and they believe that if they control the means of communication, that their "narrative" can become reality as long as all other narratives (what they now call "misinformation" can be blocked.

That's a keeper.

[rxh4n1]

“were more valuable targets than the advancing Russians.”

That’s putting the cart before the horse. They will ethically cleanse the Donbas after they drive the Russian Army out. They’re getting a head start.

[Mr Radical]

So NATO has run out of ammo before the Russians.
Who’da thunk it!

[Mr Radical]

Play devils advocate here please. What does the US and its allies in support of the Ukes HAVE that could be supplied instead to compensate for lack of parity in artillery tubes and shells? Bombs and the means to deliver? Missiles of all sorts?

Attack drones and Electronic Warfare drones of the type that last week bamboozled the Russian defences and then sunk the Kunikov?

[PalominoGuy]

...well, no... the GloboHomoNAZIS think it’s more tactical to shell Russian civilians than troops cause they are evil haters of anything Christian.... ymmv

[Tom Tetroxide]

Russian Storm Troopers Capture Pobjeda | Ukraine Abandons Krynky & Regain Positions in Robotyne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAz4DMQbvs&ab_channel=WeebUnion

[desertsolitaire]

I don’t feel anything like the urgency that would be needed to ramp up these drones to production levels by the West in numbers to keep the Ukes from being over run soon. The sinking of ships here and their by the Ukes is annoying and harassing Russia but I don’t see it stopping them from over running Ukraine eventually and maybe sooner than later.