Russia's improved weaponry and tactics pose challenges to Ukraine's counteroffensive
apnews.com
As Ukrainian troops probe Russian defenses, Kyiv’s forces face an enemy that has made mistakes and suffered setbacks in the 15-month-old war. But Moscow also has learned from those blunders and improved its weapons and skills. Russia has built heavily fortified defenses along the more than 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line, honed its electronic weapons to reduce Ukraine’s edge in combat drones and used its massive Cold-War-era arsenal of heavy bombs to turn them into precision-guided gliding munitions capable of striking targets without putting its warplanes at risk. That could threaten to turn the fight into a long battle of attrition.
  • agarorn@feddit.de
    132·
    1 year ago

    On reddit it was hard to try to reason with the Ukrainian propaganda. Every time an atlrtjcle like this was published you were down voted to death and dreamed a tankie. It is hard trying to be objective on the state of war.

    But if somebody knows what’s up, it’s mark Millie. U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley said in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday that while Ukraine’s military is well-prepared, as time goes on, “this will be a back-and-forth fight for a considerable length of time

  • dave_r@reddthat.com
    41·
    1 year ago

    As always - how much of this is what the military wants us to hear vs. what’s actually happening.

    Regardless: ugh.

  • modulus
    2·
    1 year ago

    To be honest, expectation management started even before spring with UA saying they didn’t have enough weapons. As RU consolidated its defensive lines and military doctrine (deploying large amounts of EW, for example) new releases came out from RUSI and the like pointing out the increasing difficulties.

    I’m not too surprised that the counteroffensive was first delayed, and then managed down. I may be wrong–maybe UA has something ready to make big gains–but I don’t expect large changes until autumn makes operations much harder. Hopefully real, good faith negotiations may be politically feasible by then.

  • BunkerBusterKeaton
    68·
    1 year ago

    you’re going to see a lot more of these stories as the collective west tries to find a way to back out of supporting Ukraine.

    they’ve never cared about Ukraine they were (dumbly) hoping russia would topple over internally but that was never going to happen. now they have to do a turnabout saying “wow the heckin russians are more powerful than we thought”

    • taj
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think that’s true. I don’t believe ‘the west’ is going to try to back out of Ukraine. The war is simply going to continue to drag on, without a super clear “winner” anytime soon.