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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/world/eu...russia-war.htmlThe need to cannibalize a destroyed Russian vehicle to help protect Ukraine's dwindling supply of equipment underscores Kyiv's current challenges on the battlefield as it prepares for another year of pitched combat.
"If our international partners moved faster, we would have kicked their ass in the first three or four months so hard that we would have gotten over it already. We'd be sowing fields and raising children," said the soldier, who went by the call sign Jaeger, in keeping with military protocol. "We'd be sending bread to Europe. But it's been two years already."
"The Russian advantage at this stage is not decisive, but the war is not a stalemate," said Michael Kofman, a senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who recently visited Ukraine. "Depending on what happens this year, particularly with western support for Ukraine, 2024 will likely take one of two trajectories. Ukraine could retake the advantage by 2025, or it could start losing the war without sufficient aid."
The shortage of troops is only one part of the problem. The other and currently more pressing issue is Ukraine's dwindling ammunition reserves as continued Western supplies remain anything but certain. Ukrainian commanders now have to ration their ammunition, not knowing whether every new shipment might be their last.
Only when a truck carrying two artillery shells arrived could the crew get to work for the first time in days. They quickly loaded the shells and fired toward Russian soldiers attacking Ukrainian positions three miles away.
"Today we had two shells, but some days we don't have any in these positions," said the crew's commander, who goes by the call sign Monk. "The last time we fired was four days ago, and that was only five shells."
The shortage of ammunition — and the shifting battlefield momentum — means the gunners are no longer supporting Ukrainian attacks. Instead, they only fire when Russian troops are storming Ukrainian trenches.
"I have two tanks, but only five shells," said Italian, as he walked through a denuded tree line splintered by shelling about 500 yards from Russian positions in the Luhansk region. "It's a bad situation now, especially in Avdiivka and Kupiansk."
This ammunition imbalance has been felt across much of the more than 600-mile front line, Ukrainian soldiers said. The Russian units are in a position similar to the summer of 2022, where they can simply wear down a Ukrainian position until Kyiv's forces run out of ordnance. But unlike that summer, there is no longer a frantic scramble in Western capitals to arm and re-equip Ukraine's troops