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Lack of F16s Complicate Ukrainian Advance
Nevertheless, they are progressing
The Russian air force is slowly trying to get back into the war. The UK ministry of defense says the number of sorties flown by the Russian air force has increased. Still not at the peak they had hit during the first few weeks of the war, but they are trying to see if they can.
The NYTimes confirmed the uptick in Russian sorties in a recent report: “Russian air forces and artillery weapons struck back against advancing Ukrainian troops on Tuesday, hammering them in the area of several southern villages that the Ukrainian Army had retaken over the past week in the opening phase of Kyiv’s counteroffensive”.
The attack reduced one village to ruins.
“The enemy is doing everything to keep the positions [they] captured,” Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar wrote in a Telegram post, adding that Russians were fighting back with “assault and army aviation” and “intense artillery fire.”
At the start of the invasion, Ukrainians fired missiles at the fighter jets and ran. The pawns kept knocking down rooks at a frightening rate. This was a lopsided…
