Ukraine is now, perhaps in the most severe period of war - The New York Times

Joshua Jaffa journalist states that the main problem of the Armed Forces is the absence of the necessary types of weapons and the ban on the US to use weapons for strikes in the Russian Federation. The delay in the release of the United States of military assistance has led to the depletion of ammunition reserves in the Armed Forces, which is why Ukraine is currently undergoing the most difficult period in the war. About it in his article for The New Yorker writes journalist Joshua Jaffa.

The author of the material, referring to the estimates of the Ukrainian military command, notes that now the Russian army has an advantage in artillery shots ten to one. Due to the exhaustion of air defense, Ukrainian cities, especially Kharkiv, have been the lasting attacks from the beginning of the war. In addition, rocket attacks have led to damage to power grids throughout the country.

At the same time, Jaffa emphasizes that despite the approval of the US Congress at the end of April, the Kyiv Assistance Package for the amount of $ 61 billion, there is already a change in the impulse of war, and weapons not immediately fall into the battlefield. In addition to the lack of weapons in Ukraine, there is also a lack of servicemen, because, compared to the outbreak, it is much more difficult to find those who want to replenish the benchs.

At the same time, the issue of demobilization has not yet been resolved. Meanwhile, about 30,000 new soldiers are being supplemented every month in the Russian Federation, the country's supply of artillery shells, which Russian plants produce three million during the year, have been established in the country.

In addition, Joshua Yaffa writes, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are successfully used by drones and electronic means to prevent Ukraine's novelties on the battlefield, as well as modernize a half-tonne Cab with GPS navigation to create "planning bombs" that destroy Ukrainian cities. Joshua Jaffa journalist writes articles for The New Yorker, and in 2017 published a book Between Two Lights: True, Ambition and Compromise in Putin Russia.

" From 2012 until the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, Yaff lived and worked in Russia. On February 24, 2022, he woke up in Ukrainian Kramatorsk through bombing. Since then, Jaff has not come to Russia. We will remind, on May 9 Major of the Armed Forces, Deputy Commander of 3 Separate Assault Brigade Maxim Zhorin said that Ukraine should prepare for a long war and not expect the effect of sanctions of the West.