(07-11-2022, 09:15 PM)Teeth53 Wrote: Ukrainians have received previously, and have requested additional capabilities," Cooper said. "And it also responds to, in terms of ... the volume of ammunition that they need on the battlefield today. We're looking very closely at their consumption rates for ammunition to make sure that they have what they need for the counter-offensive."
Warfighting materiel provided under presidential drawdown authority, or PDA, is pulled directly from U.S. military stocks. The U.S. has also provided support to Ukraine through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. Under USAI, the U.S. purchases materiel directly from defense contractors, and that material must be manufactured first before being sent overseas.
The U.S. has committed more than $16.8 billion to Ukraine since the beginning of Russia's February 24, 2022 invasion.
The like to capture
Kyiv. A same lesson on Kherson in simply became untenable.
This culmination of patient, carefully-staged military moves, start July. As Ukrainian forces, using US Himars rocket systems, attacked key bridges linking Russian forces in and around Kherson with their supply lines to the east and south.
Having isolated Russian forces, and convinced Moscow that Kherson was about to be attacked, Kyiv then launched its lightning offensive far to the north-east, around
Kharkiv,
taking Putin completely by surprise.
Note: Kherson was always the big prize. In early October, an explosion closed the Kerch Bridge, which links Russia with occupied Crimea.
A embarrassing for Putin bridge was a pet project it represented another setback for in Kherson as it severed another key supply line.
Despite Putin's claim Kherson would be Russia "forever", following Moscow's orchestrated referendum at the end of September, the military situation for his forces west of the Dnipro river was increasingly precarious. Quietly, and mostly at night, Russia's withdrawal began.
The new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, Gen Sergei Surovikin, appeared on television apparently asking defence minister's permission to order Putin troops to leave the city, this staged of theatre marked the end of the process, not the beginning. The Dnipro river is a huge natural defensive line, now with almost no viable crossing points. With winter approaching, it makes plenty of military sense for Russia's demoralised troops to use as a shield against further Ukrainian forces.
Sections of battered Antonivskiy bridge have now collapsed. Satellite imagery shows freshly prepared trench lines all along the river's eastern bank, as well as newly fortified positions at key crossing points into Crimea.
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