{"id":1876011,"date":"2023-03-13T19:14:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-war-hawks-say-attrition-has-backfired-in-ukraine-we-have-no-rounds\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:17:53","slug":"russias-war-hawks-say-attrition-has-backfired-in-ukraine-we-have-no-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-war-hawks-say-attrition-has-backfired-in-ukraine-we-have-no-rounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s war hawks say attrition has backfired in Ukraine: &#8216;We have no rounds&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussias-war-hawks-say-attrition-has-backfired-in-ukraine-we-have-no-rounds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1876011&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78746110\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16;height:9\">                                                                                                         <\/div>\n<p> ||[]; _bp.push({ &#8220;div&#8221;: &#8220;Brid_78746110&#8221;, &#8220;obj&#8221;: {&#8220;id&#8221;:&#8221;27789&#8243;,&#8221;width&#8221;:&#8221;16&#8243;,&#8221;height&#8221;:&#8221;9&#8243;,&#8221;video&#8221;:&#8221;1260380&#8243;} });                              <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\">Russia<\/a> A ammunition shortage extends beyond the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/wagner-mercenary-group-founder-treason\">Wagner Group<\/a> According to Russian complaints, mercenary troops are concerned about the aforementioned. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/courage-strength-optimism\/why-us-mobile-rocket-artillery-systems-are-a-game-changer-for-ukraine\">Ukrainian counteroffensive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the issue of Wagnerites \u2014 the issue is about the whole front \u2014 everyone is lacking,&#8221; Yuri Mezinov is a pro-Kremlin politician from a Russian border area. &#8220;There are no rounds, you understand? None.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mezinov expressed his disappointment amid the bloody grind around <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/bakhmut-the-town-too-tough-to-die\">Bakhmut<\/a> This has led to bitter disputes between Wagner Group leadership, the Russian Defense Ministry, and numerous protests by conscripts who were sent on doomed attacks. Their frank complaints argue that the Moscow&#8217;s embrace of a war of attrition has backfired \u2014 a stunning assessment, for pro-Kremlin analysts, that runs contrary to Russia&#8217;s historical reputation for mustering overwhelming numbers of men and materiel in wartime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our boys are dying in hundreds. Not just boys, but the best of my people, Russian people, their generation, their grandchildren and great grandchildren will never be,&#8221; Per the War Translated Project, Mezinov said. &#8220;I saw a lad \u2014 today he is gone. Because he diddm&#8217;t have enough artillery support. Along the whole front, we have a command to attack, we attack without fire support. Do we have problems with metal? Problems with metallurgists? Who can tell me? How is this possible?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/wagner-group-bakhmut-boiling-point\">FEUD BETWEEN MERCENARIES &#038; RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT NEARS &#8216;BOILING POINT\u2019 IN BAKHMUT<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Russian forces have concentrated their efforts on Bakhmut over the past months in a protracted battle that has led to Western officials fearing that Ukrainian military commanders were entangled in a conflict that could end in either defeat, or a pyrrhic victory. Ukrainian President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>Their team insists they have turned against the Russian President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vladimir-putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>Russia throws away such a thing &#8220;a large part of its trained military personnel&#8221; by relentless attacks on well-defended positions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real heroes now are the defenders who hold the eastern front on their shoulders and, sparing neither themselves nor their enemies, inflict maximum losses on them,&#8221; Ukrainian Gen. Oleksandr Sirskyi, commander for the Ukrainian military&#8217;s Ground Forces <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2023\/03\/11\/7392988\/\"><\/a> Saturday. &#8220;It is necessary to buy time to accumulate reserves and start a counteroffensive, which is not far off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\"> Ukrainian self-propelled howitzer, 2s1 of the 80 Air Assault brigade, fires at Russian forces near Bakhmut in Ukraine on Friday, March 10, 20, 2023.                <\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\">                 Evgeniy Maloletka\/AP                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This outlook is contrary to Western security circles&#8217; conventional wisdom, even the most supportive. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>The war&#8217;s goals. These are some of the most dramatic and recent examples <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/zelensky-russian-army-two-million\">Initiatives<\/a> To send military aid to Ukraine, we have accepted the fact that Putin will win a longer war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the time if we want to bring this to a successful conclusion \u2014 and, of course, we should, and we do \u2014 we should look to bring it to a conclusion quickly,&#8221; James Cleverly is the British Foreign Secretary <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/uk-nato-arm-ukraine\"><\/a> During a January trip to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Paradoxally, Russia&#8217;s struggles surrounding Bakhmut have been paradoxical <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/russia-attrition-backfired-no-rounds\">Russia&#8217;s war hawks claim that attrition in Ukraine has backfired: &#8220;We have no rounds&#8221;<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia suffers from an ammunition shortage that extends beyond the Wagner Group mercenary forces, according to Russian complaints from the front that express anxiety about a Ukrainian counteroffensive. \u201cIt\u2019s not the issue of Wagnerites \u2014 the issue is about the whole front \u2014 everyone is lacking,\u201d said Yuri Mezinov, a pro-Kremlin political figure from a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[7218,13382,19168,11777,9606,9987,6991,6696],"class_list":["post-1876011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-we","tag-attrition","tag-backfired","tag-hawks","tag-rounds","tag-russias","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}