Most of these weapons transferred by the west will be destroyed long before they ever make it to the front lines. Defense contractors don't give a damn as long as they get compensated.
Recently there were some military flights between Iran and Russia. If the Russians are smart they will have purchased Iranian drones to counter the large number of drones that the west is supplying to Ukraine. Iranian drones are battle tested / proven and would compliment the Russians well.
Large fire at oil depot in Bryansk, Russia, approx 100 km away from the Ukrainian border, which is also a logistical hub for the Russian military
Honestly the Russians should stop playing softball with Ukraine. Just shut off the electricity and water for Kiev and Lviv at the very least.
I don’t think Russia has as much real time intelligence capability as western powers. They are getting the arms thru. Some will get destroyed some might not. But it’s making the conflict longer and tougher for Russia at the expense of Ukraine’s manpower and infrastructure. Russia has started attacking Ukraine’s railway network to slow movement of weapons and equipment.
As for Iran supplying Russia with drones. It comes down to wether Russia has made the request and wether Iran has determined it would provide arms to Russia beyond small arms and plausible deniability items.
I agree with you that Russia should have taken the gloves off much earlier. If it was the West there wouldn’t be a single bottle of water that had not been bombed. Yet in the beginning of the war Russia let fuel depots and storage facilities and railway network keep running.
Reports are US will supply ANOTHER package in May and ANOTHER major one in June.
Seems like the more Russia allows the West to supply Ukraine the bolder they get. US is increasing the lethality of the weapons it’s providing each month that passes.
The hypocrisy is real. They killed Solemani under dubious evidence that Quds force was running IEDS into Iraq that killed “hundreds” of US troops. They said how that is wrong—supplying an invaded country with weapons to defend itself. Yet they are doing the same thing in Ukraine that they accuse Iran of doing.
I am Surprised that Russia is allowing this. These weapons are killing Russian soldiers and increasing the casualty toll. In Iran we can say Iran was forced to accept this as a cost of battle to save Syria from jihadi terrorists. Iran didn’t have the power to go after Israel, US, NATO while defending Syria. Risk of direct Western intervention was real . Expanding that conflict was not an option.
I imagined Russia would be in a much different position as a (former) superpower. But it seems it too must accept the reality that expanding the conflict is not in its interests at this time. Thus de facto allowance of the murder of its troops at the hands of western supplied arms.
