The Russians will probably succeed “break through the front line and cause it to collapse in some places“, the paper quoted its source as saying. Predict at what point the queuey, going from Sumy and Kharkiv in the north to Odessa in the south, the Russians will try to break through, but according to him, it will not be possible yet.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently he warned that the Ukrainians would have to retreat slowly and that they might fall into Russian handsthose large Ukrainian cities if the US Congress does not soon approve the expected aid package.
But even American aid might not be enough, Ukrainian military officials believe. “There is nothing that can help Ukraine at the moment because there are no critical technologies that can compensate for the large masses of troops that Russia is likely to throw at us. We don’t have such technology, and the West doesn’t have it in sufficient quantities either,” one of his sources from the Ukrainian military told Politico.
At least two people were killed this afternoon in a Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian town of Zaporizhia. Ivan Fedorov, the head of the Zaporozhye region, stated this in a telegram. According to him, explosions were heard in the city even after that.
The Russian attack killed a man and a woman and injured six others, according to Fedorov. “A nine-year-old boy and his 36-year-old mother and young men aged 20 and 22 are in moderate condition. A 55-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man are in serious condition,” said the head of the Zaproža administration.
If he were to receive a conscription order, Ukrainian football player Oleksandr Zinchenko is ready to enlist in the army and go to war with Russia. The Arsenal defender made the claim in an interview with the BBC.
“I think the answer is absolutely clear: I would go,” said the 27-year-old Zincenko. One of the deputy captains of the national team said that several of his classmates from school are fighting in the army against the Russian invasion.
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Bleak prospects according to this source they can only reverse the determination and resilience of the Ukrainians or mistakes made by Russia, as in cases where a large number of soldiers and equipment were unnecessarily lost during the attacks.
Weapons deliveries are coming from the West, according to Ukrainian officialslate and in insufficient quantities. In this context, one of the newspaper’s sources recalled that the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Valery Zaluzhnyi, previously pointed to the fact that even weapon systems considered groundbreaking lose their effectiveness over time, as Russian forces are able to quickly adapt to them. “For example, we used Storm Shadow/SCALP guided missiles successfully, but only briefly. Russians are always learning. They don’t give us a second chance,” the paper’s source said.
“Often we get weapons systems at a time when they are no longer relevant,” pshared another high-ranking army official, saying that American F-1 fighters are an example6. Ukrainian pilots are currently undergoing training in the operation of these machines. Ukrainian forces are expected to be able to deploy these fighters in the summer, notes Politico. “Every weapon has its time. F-16s were needed in 2023, they won’t be right for 2024.” said a Ukrainian official.
Ukrainian officials agree that what Ukraine needs now are more drones and basic assets such as ammunition. They estimate that Ukraine would now need four million artillery shells and two million drones. Several allies, led by the Czech Republic, are planning to provide Ukraine with about 1.5 million artillery shells in the near future, the newspaper recalled.
