Ukraine losing ground to Russians

 NY Times:

Russia has recaptured land hard won by Ukrainian troops at the peak of their summer counteroffensive in the south, making progress around the southern village of Robotyne.

The situation has reinforced the war’s latest reality: With their counteroffensive stalled, Ukrainian troops are now on the back foot in many places. Besides Robotyne in the south, they are also struggling in the east, having all but retreated from the town of Marinka, officials said this week.

Deepening their challenges, Ukraine is increasingly worried that its military will not have the resources to keep up the fight. The United States announced Wednesday that it was releasing the last remaining Congress-approved package of military aid available to Ukraine.

“Now we are losing some fields, but if the U.S. aid is delayed, we will begin to lose towns,” Yehor Chernev, the deputy chair of the Ukrainian parliament’s committee on national security, defense and intelligence, said in an interview last week. “Without American ammunition, we are beginning to lose territory that was hard won this summer.”

For weeks, reluctance by Republican lawmakers in Congress to sustain assistance for Ukraine as the war stretches into another new year has thwarted Washington’s plans to send Ukraine more military aid. Congress declined again last week to pass a $50 billion security package for Ukraine, pushing back negotiations to next year.

Although some military aid could still flow from a separate program overseen by the Pentagon, the Biden administration is now tapping into the last remaining funds already approved by Congress. A $250 million package announced Wednesday — which includes air defense equipment, artillery shells and more than 15 million rounds of small arms ammunition — is likely the final tranche of available funding, according to American officials.

“When that one is done,” the National Security Council spokesperson, John Kirby, told reporters last week, “we will have no more replenishment authority available to us.”
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The approval of more funds for Ukraine is tied to Republican's insistence that the Biden administration begin to defend the US borders and not just Ukraine's.  Biden's irresponsible open borders policy has created a flood of migrants from around the world that is impacting not only border states but Democrat-controlled cities.

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