Gravitas: Ukraine’s defence is crumbling, here’s proof

Gravitas: Ukraine’s defence is crumbling, here’s proof

Ukraine’s defense is crumbling Russian attacks are more lethal than ever for the last 2 years Ukraine has been able to hold the fort but now it seems like its defense is caving in and why are we saying that because Ukraine is shooting down a far smaller proportion of Russian missile attacks than it was earlier in the war have a look at these numbers in the past 6 months Ukraine managed to intercept around 46 6% of Russian missiles last month this figure further fell to 30% a year ago the interception rate stood at 73% as you can see there has been a steep fall in Ukraine’s ability to block Russian missiles this is according to Western media’s analysis of Ukraine’s own data Russia meanwhile has significantly rammed up its assault over the past 6 months Moscow fired around 45% more drones and missile than in the 6 months before it also doubled the number of Shahed drones attacks over 2,600 to be specific it also fired 114 ballistic and 46 Hypersonic kinol and ziron missiles last year the Figures were 33 and 27 on top of that Moscow has also repurposed air defense systems to attack Ukraine and use them to fire 175 missiles into Ukraine this year alone we are talking about about s300 and S400 air defense systems here and how much of it was Ukraine able to intercept it’s pitiful to say the least it could shoot down just 10% of the ballistic missiles and as for s300 and S400 missiles it has failed to intercept any of them not even a single one and why is that why is Ukraine’s defense failing so massively you see the West supplied Patriot systems are Ukraine’s only reliable way to shoot down ballistic s300 and Hypersonic missiles but Kiev has only a handful of them and to top it off it has exhausted the ammunition used in these in these systems Russia meanwhile is increasingly firing harder to hit weapons and with that it’s not only destroying Ukrainian infrastructure and cities but also sapping kev’s already sparse supply of missiles and what is Ukraine doing about all of this well there is little it can do but wait for the West to send more patriots and this by the way can take anywhere between 2 months and several years depending on whether they will come from existing stock piles or manufactured on Fresh orders the air War may now come down to which side can Outlast the other on Missile supplies and the odds don’t seem to be in Ukraine’s favor it is dependent on its Western allies which are struggling to send missiles on time Russia on the other hand has its own stock piles and it’s also capable of producing 170 missiles every month not to forget the drones and missiles it is getting from its allies and if the numbers are to be believed Russia is dominating the battlefield then what explains what’s going on on the political front if things are going well for Russia why is Putin shaking up the Kremlin security team that’s right he has sacked Sergei shyu from his longtime position as the country’s defense minister nobody saw this coming he is a longstanding Putin Confidant he has served as the defense minister for over 11 years now Shu will lead Russia’s security and defense Council it’s a consultative body that advises the president but what is the reason behind this we cannot see but there are signs that cannot be ignored last month itself Russian officials opened a ground shaking criminal case into one of shu’s deputies I’m talking about timour ianov he oversaw military construction projects including the rebuilding of the destroyed Ukrainian city of Mario Pole now occupied by Russia for years he lived high on the hog flaunted his access to St Tropez Villas yachts rolls-royces until last month when he got arrested for allegedly taking bribes worth $11 million now this was an omous sign for shyu because shu is himself no stranger to luxury in fact according to an investigation by anti-corruption campaigners he lived in a $15 million pagora style complex outside Mo Moscow it was registered to his sister-in-law and built on land bought by his 18-year-old daughter I don’t need to spell this out the mansion’s ownership was disguised what’s more since the Ukraine war broke out in 2022 the Armed Forces against under shigu the Armed Forces under Shu have been plagued by rumors of careless spending mishandling resources and incompetence and now President Putin has stepped in to replace him with an experienced technocrat the Reigns of the defense ministry will now go to former vice prime minister Andre bosov he previously served as the economic development Minister and an adviser to Putin the Kremlin indicated that basov was the man for the job as military spending ballooned to 6.6% of the Russian GDP Bellos of’s appointment means that Shu moves to head the security Council despite the sense that Shu has been ousted he will still remain in a high ranking position the question is is Putin trying to keep shigu close yet detached from the system who’s to say to stay up to speed with the latest news download the 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Data shows that Ukraine’s defence is crumbling. Russian attacks have become more lethal than ever. Ukraine is shooting down a far smaller proportion of Russian missile attacks than it was earlier in the war.

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