President Vladimir Putin will have hoped his missile onslaught across Ukraine today has projected an image of strength. They are being read in the West as quite the opposite. The act of an increasingly desperate commander running out of options.
Long distance precision-guided weapons are expensive to produce and Russia has used up many of its supplies. Russia has also bolstered its arsenal with Iranian-supplied Shaheed drones.Moment bridge linking Russia and Crimea explodes
But they too are being depleted. Ukraine has been effective at locating the warehouses where they are being stored and destroying them. Both forms of munitions are finite resources.The Russian missile attacks follow a series of retreats and defeats by their forces on the ground. If the Ukrainians are able to move quickly enough and push the Russians back fast enough, they may force them to abandon their armour."We could see the Ukrainians stealing their entire armoured capability," says Mr McKenzie.
That would be a humiliating outcome for President Putin which would pose an existential threat. He cannot afford to look weak or fail in this war. His military is on the back foot and increasingly threatened by Ukrainian advances and now, say western observers, starved of logistics.
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