Russia's military is running out of weapons, head of the U.K.'s GCHQ said

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Putin is running out of weapons

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LONDON -- Russia is in a “desperate” position in its war in Ukraine and is running out of weapons and allies, according to the U.K.’s Director of GCHQ Jeremy Fleming.

“We believe that Russia is running short of munitions, it’s certainly running short of friends … Russia and Russia’s commanders are worried about the state of their military machine,” Fleming said in an interview with the BBC News on Tuesday morning.

“The word I’ve used is ‘desperate.’ We can see that desperation at many levels inside Russian society and inside the Russian military machine," said Fleming, whose British Government Communications Headquarters has a mission similar to the U.S. National Security Agency.....

“Far from the inevitable Russian military victory that their propaganda machine spouted, it's clear that Ukraine’s courageous action on the battlefield and in cyberspace is turning the tide,” Fleming said in his prepared remarks, adding that, “The costs to Russia -- in people and equipment are staggering. We know -- and Russian commanders on the ground know -- that their supplies and munitions are running out.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a series of missile strikes across Ukraine in the last 48 hours in retaliation for an attack on the strategically important Kerch bridge into Crimea over the weekend, with Fleming arguing this will have depleted their dwindling arsenal.

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1. These are the indicative estimates of Russia's combat losses as of Oct. 16,

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[Kaleva]

2. There are reports that the draftees are a liability

As soon as shooting starts, instead of hunkering down and holding their positions, they run away. This tells the Ukrainians where they were and they zero in on the positions and blast the experienced Russian troops who did hunker down

[niyad]

3. He should run out of oxygen.

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4. Russia's 'irrecoverable losses' in Ukraine: more than 90,000 troops dead, disabled, or AWOL

If you count wounded and disabled, Russia's losses are far larger than reported

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More than 90,000 troops make up Russia’s “irrecoverable” military losses in Ukraine, as reported by the Russian media project iStories (or Vazhnye Istorii). One of the two sources of this information works in the FSB; the other is a former state security officer.

“Irrecoverable losses” is a category that includes servicemen who were killed, went missing, died from their wounds or were disabled and cannot return to military service.

This new estimate is close to the figures stated earlier by the Pentagon and the British Defense Ministry. Last August, the Pentagon estimated that 70–80 thousand Russian troops had been killed or critically wounded since the start of the war. In September, the British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace stated that the Russian army’s total losses exceeded 80,000; of those, about 25,000 were thought to have been killed.

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5. Putin is about to deploy General Gas to the political war.

He will be praying for a repeat of the Winter of '41-'42 when Stalin had "Soviet Weather." It is unclear how our European allies will react to the attacks on their warmth.

[Happy Hoosier]

10. Hopefully by holding the idiots....

... who tied theoir energy security to an unrelaible partner accountable.

I love lots of things about Europe, but one thing they were bad at is taking their security seriously.

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6. Russia is now Ukraine's No. 1 arms supplier!

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[Aristus]

7. Goddamn. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's some right-wing hammerhead

telling me or anyone else to "wake up".

Does this mean they're "woke"?...

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9. Ukrainian soldiers have been almost giddy discovering all the equipment left behind...calling it...

Lend Lease with a smirk.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. It's a dangerous time. Poopoo brain will get desperate and even crazier.