RE: Impending troubles3 May 2024 11:00
No worries H, I really do think it is. I am more concerned at how things on the battle might turn out. The Russians are currently assaulting Chasiv Yar – occupying it would give the Russians easy access to the major towns in Donetsk Oblast. Vadym Skibitskyi, Deputy Head of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, recently said in an Economist interview that defending Chasiv Yar is proving to be hard. The Russians are throwing everything at the Ukrainians – Su-34 bombers, Su-25 attack jets, FAB-500 glide bombs, loitering munitions like the HESA Shahed 136 and the ZALA Lancet drone, Storm Z and Storm V penal units in so-called 'meat waves', ODAB-1500 thermobaric bombs, paratroopers from the elite 331st Guards Airborne Regiment, incendiary munitions like white phosphorous, armoured convoys of AFV's like the BMD-2 and BMP-2 and APC's like the BTR-80 APC, plus lots of T-72 tanks. The Ukrainians are doing a stellar job holding them off so far, but they are desperately short of men and munitions.