The Armed Forces have an advantage over Russian troops in the south of Ukraine and this changes the course of war - NYT

Initially, Russia had an advantage on the front, striking from distant positions that were unattainable for Ukrainian weapons. But in recent months the situation in southern Ukraine has changed. According to military experts confirming the Ukrainian military themselves, the powerful Western weapons helped the Armed Forces to gain artillery advantage in the area over Russian troops. Ukraine now has a weapon that can beat further and more precisely than before.

In Russia, there were problems with high -precision weapons at this stage of the war. New Western weapons help, though slowly, but to move to the Armed Forces to Kherson, a single regional center that the Russian troops have been able to capture from the beginning of a full -scale invasion in February this year.

The situation on the front may not change in favor of Russia, despite the fact that its army is still a terrible force, and Putin himself clearly stated that he intends to win the war at any cost. The advantage of the Armed Forces is visible not only in artillery, but also Ukrainians show their advantage with other types of weapons. This applies to drones, which early on October 29 struck a Russian ship in Sevastopol.

And this is already a deep rear of Russia, although it is occupied Ukrainian territory since 2014, and Crimea was considered an impregnable bastion. As focus wrote, Russia accused the United Kingdom of attack on warships in Sevastopol. As for artillery blows, if earlier the ratio of shots was about 1 to 10 in favor of Russia, now the situation has changed. And Ukrainians make about the same number of shots from Russian positions in the south of the Kherson region.

But now the Armed Forces strokes are more accurate, thanks to satellite, and Ukrainian troops can cause them at greater distances. According to one of the commanders of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces on the Kherson Front, Ukrainians can now get Russians, and they can not give anything in response, because they have no such weapons. "They end ammunition, the intensity of the task of the blows decreased 3 times. They can be won," - says a Ukrainian military named Alexander.

The firing power provided by Western allies has already bowed the scales of the scales in this area of ​​the front in favor of the Armed Forces. The Russians divert heavy equipment further from the front line so that it is not obtained by the American howitzers M777. At the same time, all bridges in the Kherson area, which supplied supplies for the Russian army, are under the fire control of the Armed Forces. And this violated the logistics chain of supply of Russians.

And now the question remains: how long will Russian troops be able to stay in Kherson? Polish military expert Conrad Music believes that the Russian Federation cannot support the normal supply of its army on the western bank of the Dnieper, where the Armed Forces is now running. And the artillery advantage of the Ukrainian army is already significant.

According to the expert, on one of the front sections, the Ukrainian military struck such a noticeable blow to Russian positions with the help of howitzers and the SAU that their Russian artillery positions fell silent for more than 48 hours. Experts indicate that Russia cannot transfer heavy equipment to the western bank of the Dnieper and therefore its army has lost at least some advantage, including the number of weapons.

"The Russians have no heavy weapons, no supplies, it is cold and often it rains. They have a heavy condition and it has a great effect on the moral spirit of Russian soldiers. If they try to stay in Kherson in winter, then it will be the same Stalingrad as For the Nazis during World War II, ”says a Ukrainian military named Oleg. As the focus has already wrote, the Armed Forces had eliminated 950 invaders and 16 artillery systems of the Russian Army in the past 24 hours.