NEW: The exhaustion of US-provided air defenses due to delays in resuming US aid to Ukraine and improvements in Russian strike tactics have led to the increasing effectiveness of Russian strikes against Ukraine w/o an increase in the size or frequency of such strikes. (🧵1/5)
2/ Russian forces have inflicted increasing and long-term damage to Ukrainian energy infrastructure this spring. The increased effectiveness of Russian strikes does not appear to result from the use of more missiles and drones in each strike.
@TheStudyofWar Is the E.U. not supplying air defence munitions?
@TheStudyofWar "The Angel of Death" Victoria Nuland's husband, take the L.
@TheStudyofWar And they say they are the leaders of democracy around the world. Not anymore. Europe needs to step up and defend it's own backyard.