#hippokleides

Interesting interview with a Ukrainian defence minister and their logistics commander, which tells us a lot about this war in general. I'll post a few extracts.

https://nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/6/15/ukraine-to-us-defense-industry-we-need-long-range-precision-weapons…

The scale of conflict is huge. As I've said before, in Europe proper, only Russia and Ukraine could even wage war on this scale. That he says they need the world's "entire military industrial complex" to oppose Russia indicates the scale of its military resources.

Here, Ukraine is admitting to (estimated) losses way in excess of OSINT figures. This isn't surprising to anyone who looks at OSINT methodology but they are given far greater weight than they deserve.

Interesting point about the difficulties of transferring arms: in the west most are exported with strict conditions regarding their use and gifting them to Ukraine requires permission from the manufacturing country. Will also be risks of tech falling into Russian hands.

Ukraine faces issues both with the variety of different systems it now operates and with low Western stocks and manufacturers not geared up to produce on scale. Big L for NATO procurement strategies.

More logistics problems. Interesting that the M777 is singled out for its fragility. But stuff is being damaged constantly and needs repair. Ukraine is not going to have experienced techs for this or sotkcs of spares.