Russian invasion of Ukraine

I think I prefer reporting of where Zelenskyy is located, in the past tense.

Ie

Zelenskyy was in Avdiikva

Just get a bit nervous about Putin tossing in a few of his last cruise missiles
Oh don't worry, it'll all be time delayed.
 

Russia is "going backwards" in equipment and deploying post WWII-era tanks, according to Western officials​

From CNN’s Vasco Cotovio and Max Foster

Russia is "going backwards" with the equipment it is using in Ukraine, Western officials said, explaining they’ve seen Moscow deploy tanks originally built after World War II while it struggles to replenish stocks of lost armored vehicles.
Officials said during a briefing on Tuesday they hadn't seen "a large uptick in increasing equipment."
"If anything, the equipment they [the Russians] are using is older generation," they said, adding Moscow had been increasingly relying on older models of tanks in the war.
"They started with the T-80 and T-90 [tanks], went down to T-72, and indeed, we saw the first T-55s rolled out of the refurbishment to be put into battle and the same picture across artillery pieces as well," the officials said.
The T-90 was first introduced in 1992, the T-80 in 1976, while the T-72 came into service in 1972 and the T-55 after World War II in 1948.
"They're going backwards in terms of equipment," they added.
The officials also said Russia was still struggling with manpower, explaining that despite being able to muster large numbers of personnel, Moscow was still not providing them with adequate training.
“We've seen two quite relatively small training cycles go through Belarus, but out of a force of 150,000 which they claimed were mobilized, we've probably seen maybe 15,000 which have gone for any kind of company level training,” the officials said. “That's where we see the Russian force at the moment; it’s been degraded from the force that originally went into Ukraine.”
 

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