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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has flown to Washington DC in an attempt to rescue a critical $61bn military aid package, while the UK separately hinted that it could increase the value of the arms, ammunition and training that it donates to Kyiv.

Zelenskiy is due to meet the US president, Joe Biden, on Tuesday, as well as US senators and the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, at a time when Congress is holding up future American financial support for Kyiv’s war effort.

Shortly after arriving in the US capital, Zelenskiy said Ukraine was counting on the US, and that delays to future rounds of military aid were “dreams come true” for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

“Putin must lose,” Zelenskiy said in a speech at the National Defense University in Washington DC. “You can count on Ukraine, and we hope just as much to be able to count on you.”

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[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 months ago

Ukraine doesn't have to kill every single military conscript. First of all, many of those 1mil. russian troops are working logistics. Second, an army isn't beat when all of its men are dead, but when morale breaks. So what needs to happen is that Ukraine gets enough material to crush russian assaults for long enough to convince the russian cannon fodder to not attack anymore. And the military support needs to be sustained to indicate to Putin that he can't out-wait the support, but will have to strike a deal before his army gets overpowered.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Considering the Russians don’t use pallets or forklifts it might be way more than a million in logistics

[-] chitak166@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Totally, truly, and honestly.

If Russian people were to say "fuck this", then the war is over.

The problem is that Russian propaganda is so strong among its people that I don't really see that as a possibility until the bitter end. I think Ukraine will reach their bitter end before Russia does without foreign troops on the ground.

Not just volunteers. But coordinated, military aid.

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