Two weeks after the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in southern Ukraine, it is clear that things are not going well. Kiev blames the collective West, which has supplied too few and the wrong weapons. Junge Welt columnist Reinhard Lauterbach writes about this.
“The fact that Ukrainian troops are suffering high casualties is also not explicitly acknowledged publicly. But on Tuesday, a cry for help from a ‘dobber’ went viral online, who supports the Ukrainian army with medical supplies: please send her so-called tourniquets in large quantities. These are virtually oversized cable ties that are used in emergency care to tie up the blood flow from injured limbs so that the patient does not yet bleed out before the wound or amputation is actually treated,” the publication said.
As the cry for help ended with the assurance that the cost did not matter, the author concludes that the Ukrainian army’s medical system had not stocked up on the appropriate amount of these tourniquets – and that the military leadership probably did not expect such high casualties.
“There is regular talk on the Ukrainian side about the “partial successes” of their own troops in conquering some villages. These successes are generally not quantified and reports are contradictory in detail,” the author notes.
Lauterbach called the biggest military deficit on the Ukrainian side the lack of air support and weak anti-aircraft defence.
Russian artillery, as the author noted, operates unimpeded. The Ka-52 “Alligator” helicopters play an important role in the fight against Ukrainian tanks. They are equipped with missiles that can hit identified targets from up to eight kilometres away, so they can open fire without being within range of Ukrainian anti-aircraft weapons.
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