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Continued US delays in military assistance to Ukraine don’t allow Ukrainian forces to conduct effective defensive operations but give Russian forces opportunity to conduct offensive operations.
The Institute for the Study of War claims this in its latest report.
ISW analysts believe that such dynamics will give opportunities for Russian forces to make operationally significant gains in the future.
“Significant delays in US military assistance have already created shortages in Ukraine’s air defense missile stockpiles and hinder Ukraine’s ability to adapt to evolving Russian strike packages,” the report says.
According to the report, Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a constant air domain offense-defense innovation-adaptation race, and Russia continues to adjust the timing, scale, composition, and targets of its strike packages to be able to penetrate Ukraine’s air defense umbrella.
The ISW notes that only the United States can deliver enough air defense systems to Ukraine to significantly and timely improve Ukraine’s air defense capabilities.
Earlier, in an interview with PBS, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that without the US aid, Ukraine “will have no chance of winning” the war with Russia.
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