[Skybird]

While some insist on the truth of the claim that Russia has assembled 100,000 troops and 900 tanks in the East to form a new front and others put this counting in doubt, it is confirmed that, as CNN put it, "Russian forces push along "almost entire front line" in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region".

Things do not run good for Ukraine. My impression definitely is that it gets worse and worse. The Russians have used the time Germany and other superhesitent countries have given them to build some formidable defences. Currently Russia forces the Ukrainians to play the game at Russia's terms, not the other way around.

Western production of artillery shells still runs slow, in some producing countries still seems to stay bogged own. Thats unbelievable. Unbelievable. I think quite some politicians still have not heard the starting shot(s). Where the will to improv exists, it gets then tackled by global shortages of certain supplies needed for producing these rounds.