Really interested to check this video out when I have a chance. My initial thoughts are that this ship sailed a while ago, got a hole punched in it by a naval drone, then was towed to Sevastopol for repair before being destroyed by a storm shadow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Even if they can keep up, it will only be for a few years, and it will wreck their economy for multiple reasons.

[–] c0c0c0 5 points 1 year ago

But Ukraine has its own challenges. Not only is its industrial sector being regularly bombed, but it has to depend upon the West not losing interest. It's a race to see which happens first: Russian collapse or Western disengagement.

[–] mawkishdave 3 points 1 year ago

Also Russian is taking a lot of those people that would build the stuff and sending them to the front lines. The migrant working are finding out the same will happen to them. So even if Russian could get the Western parts they don't have the skilled labor to make or repair the stuff.