Ukraine should have quit while they still had ports. Instead, they keep pinpricking the bear, forcing Putin to take more than he really wanted. “Ukrainian political leadership is always motivated to escalate, despite the fact that they are destined to lose any sort of tit-for-tat, because Russia can almost always hurt Ukraine more than Ukraine can hurt Russia ” Peter Slezkine, senior fellow and director of the Russia Program at the Stimson Center, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Ukraine’s Situation Grows Dire As Russia Continues To Hammer Ports | The Daily Caller Concentrated Russian attacks on Yuzhny Port outside Odessa “means the destruction of warehouses containing stockpiled fuels and lubricants used by the Ukrainian military, and, in fact, the country itself,” military expert and retired colonel Anatoliy Matviychuk told Sputnik. “Ukraine is currently experiencing a huge shortage of fuels and lubricants based on oil and its derivatives. With winter approaching, this not only undermines the army’s combat power, but also creates social tensions in Ukraine, and lack of heat and electricity.” Russian strikes on Odessa designed to paralyze Ukraine’s war machine, undermine its fighting spirit
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