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October 6, 2022
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https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-ends-artillery-shortage-by-taking-from-fleeing-russians-wsj-2022-10?international=true&r=US&IR=T
Ukraine is no longer low on artillery ammo because Russia abandoned so much in recent retreats
Ammunition left behind by fleeing Russian troops is filling Ukraine's depleted reserves and powering its counter-offensive, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Russia's hurried retreat from Kharkiv in early September saw soldiers abandoning a mass of hardware, including tanks, other armored vehicles and howitzers.
They also left behind huge quantities of Soviet-caliber artillery shells, the paper reported.
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Much of Ukraine's military arsenal is Russian or Soviet equipment, making it hard for them to replenish stocks.
In March, western officials reported that Ukrainian troops in Mariupol were resupplying by stealing ammo from Russian soldiers.
By June, Vitaly Kim, the governor of the southern region of Mykolaiv, said "we are out of ammo," Voice of America reported.
The US depleted its own reserves of some ammunition in supplying Ukraine, with levels of 155 mm ammunition becoming "uncomfortably low," as one unnamed defense official told the WSJ in late August.
But this has begun to change since Ukraine's lightning-fast counter-offensive in September. As its soldiers recaptured huge swathes of territory in the northeastern Kharkiv region, Russians dropped their guns and abandoned tanks.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-ends-artillery-shortage-by-taking-from-fleeing-russians-wsj-2022-10?international=true&r=US&IR=T
October 6, 2022
That's a promise Jack
October 4, 2022
Good observation about FAUX "news"
October 1, 2022
Scary, sad, and funny all at once
September 29, 2022
Those Russian Generals are losing so badly, that...
September 29, 2022
Will Ian keep Nazi DeSantis from kidnapping anymore immigrants?
will the Nazi use the money to actually help the people he serves rather than engage in cruel, illegal political stunts intended only to serve himself and his sinister agenda?
September 27, 2022
https://apnews.com/article/oath-keepers-founder-jan-6-trial-4372b311695c401255c6881111ff4f41
Oath Keeper and Trump-supporting traitor forced his wife to be a stripper
Oath Keeper and Trump-supporting traitor Stewart Rhodes forced his conservative Morman wife to be a stripper to put him through school
Adams family had set aside money for her to go to college, but after their wedding Rhodes decided he should be the first to attend school. He told her she would need to quit her job teaching ballroom and country dancing and instead support them both by working full time as a stripper so he could focus on doing an excellent job in school, according to Adams. They married, but she found stripping degrading and it clashed with her conservative Mormon upbringing, she said.
Every night the drive was just so bad. I would just throw up every single night before I went in, it was just so awful, Adams said. Rhodes would pressure her to go further, increase her exposure or contact with men to make more money, she said. It was never enough ... I felt like I had given up my soul.
https://apnews.com/article/oath-keepers-founder-jan-6-trial-4372b311695c401255c6881111ff4f41
September 26, 2022
When a racist doesn't really "get it"
September 24, 2022
The GOP announce their agenda for America
September 20, 2022
DeSantis human trafficking stunt in a nutshell
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