The Clock Is Ticking: Russia Has A One-Year Reserve Of Weapons - Forbes

"As Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds into its third year, three main dynamics are shaping the battlefield.

First: Russia is fully mobilized—politically, industrially and militarily. But this mobilization is depleting resources the Kremlin can’t renew. Most importantly, stocks of old Cold War-vintage weapons.

In other words, Russia is strong, but fragile.

Second: Ukraine is mobilizing, too, but it still relies on foreign aid to meet urgent financial and military needs—and Russia-friendly Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are withholding a decisive portion of that aid.

Third: Ukrainian tactics are superior to Russian tactics, helping Ukrainian formations to defeat much larger Russian formations. But tactics are irrelevant when and where Ukrainian forces simply run out of ammunition.

The interplay of these three dynamics explains the seeming contradictions that are evident every day along the 600-mile front line of the wider war.

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