With russian forces demoralized, spread thin, this seems to be a real window of opportunity for u krane. We are now seeing ukraine look to exploit what it sees as this opportune moment to take back some of the land that it lost in the past month. They may have sustained losses of equipment, but this stuff is pouring in. Even australia is sending armored fighting vehicles. And on t Tuesday, america said it would send another hundred million dollars worth of anti tank systems,. So there are things that it may still be short of, stuff like soviet era artillery ammunition. This stuff gets chewed up very fast, and there may not be
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