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i keep reading reports that russians have run out of ammo and their soldiers are fighting with shovels now [1] so it must be the ukranians [1] https://www.bbc.

• K5EiS 4y ago
  > "armed with only 'firearms and shovels'" You left out the firearms part
  • polotics 4y ago
    A shovel is the most essential tool of infantry, if you can't dig your trench quickly, you are a dead man much faster...
    • khochesh_kushat 4y ago
      Is affixing shovels and charging enemy positions very common historically?
      • throwaway742 4y ago
        Yes it was quite common. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGIBJeRfnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGIBJeRfnQ
• EGreg 4y ago
  Truth is the first casualty of war. These stories have been going on since April of last year. https://www.newsweek.com/russian-army-days-away-running-out-resources-military-experts-say-1688025 https://www.newsweek.com/russian-army-days-away-running-out-... Each side is basically creating an echo chamber for their citizens to believe, so they will keep supporting an ongoing war until “the other side” is “100% defeated” so it “can’t attack us again”. I have seen this rhetoric in every proxy war, including Yemen since 2014 and Syria even before that. Sadly the same thing repeats in every conflict but most people don’t know that.
  • peppermint_gum 4y ago
    Running out of resources doesn't mean they will suddenly stop shooting. It isn't binary. It means the intensity of artillery and missile strikes is decreasing. It means they have to import arms from Iran. It means they are now using ancient T-62s and recently started pulling T-55s out of storage.