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[–] Spacebar@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Artillery shells. Ukraine still has less of them than Russia. Russia out fires Ukraine by a good margin. Until Ukraine can reach at least parity, the counter offensive will be slow and painful.

Ukraine can't and shouldn't waste the lives of its soldiers. Russia has no problem doing so.

Western countries are ramping up the production of shells, but it takes time. Until that happens, don't expect Ukraine to liberate its territory.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention Ukraine doesn't want to just flatten a village with artillery

Flat village with no Russians > almost flat village with Russians

[–] Hank@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not just artillery shells, the Russians are far better equipped with anything air. The have way more and better planes and helicopters and way more AA. I'm just an armchair general but it's insane to me that Russia can't profit more from this.