Ukraine’s ability to impede the flow of Russian supplies and personnel to the front lines has grown in recent days, from the southern regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson to the eastern front, and has forced the Russian army to a standstill, according to battlefield analysis.Meanwhile, Ukraine has continued to strike refineries and munitions factories deep inside Russia, weakening its war effort.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listSensing the growing strength of their position, Ukrainian forces struck the city of St Petersburg as Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived there for a high-profile economic forum, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote him an open letter telling him he could not win the war.“Your resources are significantly dwindling,” Zelenskyy wrote. “You won’t have enough money and political power to continue buying the loyalty of Russians, as you’ve been doing for 26 years.”Zelenskyy invited Putin to face-to-face talks. Russia did not respond directly, nor did it acknowledge its deteriorating battlefield situation.There is one area where Zelenskyy conceded the Russians had an advantage.“You hope that ballistics will do for you what everything else has failed to do,” he wrote to Putin.Russia produces 120 ballistic missiles a month, Zelenskyy told the Ukraine-NATO Council, twice as many as the Patriot interceptors the United States produces.“Compared to the current challenges, this is nothing,” Zelenskyy told Face the Nation.The effectiveness of Russia’s ba …
