Russia has lost hundreds of thousands of military personnel since February 2022, according to Ukrainian officials.
"Enemy manpower superiority is reportedly 10-fold. They're better armed. We have no magazines, nothing. Machine guns are rotten. We use whatever there is."has received a boost in central Europe as Slovakia's pro-Moscow former prime minister has returned to power in the country.
Robert Fico's election victory with the populist Smer-SD party on Sunday will likely signal a major concern for Kyiv, which has benefited from military aid from Slovakia, with which it shares a border.Slovakia and Poland have sent Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, setting the precedent for Kyiv's allies to consider boosting the country's airpower with Western-made aircraft, particularly US-built F-16 fighter jets.
Fico previously stepped down as Slovakia's prime minister after the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée in 2018. Kuciak, who was investigating allegations of government corruption, was shot dead with his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, at their home in February 2018.Newsweek
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