Russia intensifies assaults on Ukraine ahead of Trump’s inauguration

“Only $11.5bn of the $60bn from the US was for procurement for Ukraine,” said Oleksandr Danylyuk, a Kyiv-based associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank. He said he believed Ukraine has already performed miracles with one hand tied behind its back. “There is a constant shortage of equipment, ammunition and this is the reason why the Russians have some progress,” he told Al Jazeera. “It’s really a miracle they don’t have better results because they outnumber Ukrainians. They had originally 140,000 in 2022, about half a million in 2023 and now it’s about 800,000.”