Artillery shells. Ukraine still has less of them than Russia. Russia out fires Ukraine by a good margin. Until Ukraine can reach at least parity, the counter offensive will be slow and painful.

Ukraine can't and shouldn't waste the lives of its soldiers. Russia has no problem doing so.

Western countries are ramping up the production of shells, but it takes time. Until that happens, don't expect Ukraine to liberate its territory.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Not to mention Ukraine doesn't want to just flatten a village with artillery

[–] Hank@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Not just artillery shells, the Russians are far better equipped with anything air. The have way more and better planes and helicopters and way more AA. I'm just an armchair general but it's insane to me that Russia can't profit more from this.

[–] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Defenders always have home field advantage.

Basically means in war, if one side is attacking and one side is defending, the odds are in the defenders favor. As they can deploy mines, IEDs, traps, advance structural defenses, turrets, and ambushes locations.

Which is why it was so stupid to invade Ukraine in the first place and why it is going to be hard for Ukraine to take back territory.