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August 3, 2024
Ukraine pushed Russia’s Black Sea Fleet out of Crimea but retaking the peninsula will be incredibly hard
Benjamin Friedman, policy director at the Defense Priorities think tank, said that Ukraine lacks the manpower and air cover required to go on the offensive in a “major way.”
“Even with F-16s, I don’t think Ukraine has the ability to provide its ground forces effective close air support, given Russian air defense capability,” he told BI.
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