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The word I have is that Russia is busted ar5e broke [member=57]ElwoodBlues1[/member], as the EU and West diminishes the demand for fossil fuels Russia's income stream has evaporated, so it's trying to do a deal with China and China has obliged by purchasing coal, gas and oil from the Soviets and to look like good citizens the Chinese are not yet providing munitions.

But I've a contact who is a military political strategist, they tell me the West knew something was up when they saw fairly large scale munitions doing relatively little damage, relative being a fairly subjective term, missiles and bombs that should flatten a whole building not doing much more damage than an RPG grenade. It's not some humanitarian strategic small scale strike, it's because they cannot afford the explosives so the missiles and bombs have a fraction of the rated payload, everything is being rationed.

Basically they are throwing more cheaper smaller rocks to try and maximise the coverage while minimising the operating cost. The butter is spread very very thin.

In my experience, you can't reduce the explosive content of missiles/artillery shells without altering the trajectory and, from what I've seen, the munitions are doing exactly what you'd expect to the targets.

My information is that the Russians severely under-estimated the resolve of the Ukranians and their capacity to defend.  The Ukranians opened the floodgates on several dams and the inundated land makes it extremely difficult for the invading troops to manoeuvre.  That all means a logistics nightmare for the Russians and that's adding to an already low morale among the troops, most of whom are simply cannon fodder and not highly-trained special forces.

On top of that, NATO and EU are providing sophisticated anti-aircraft and anti-armour munitions that are more than capable of defeating anything the Russians can field.