NATO may need to intervene militarily to avoid Ukrainian defeat

Part One—Major Article

Dispatches

1) Dan Sabbagh (Kyiv), “Ukraine’s high casualty rate could bring war to tipping point; Analysis: Kyiv’s fighting strength is stretched, yet Russia could now benefit from a pause in fighting, The Guardian, June 10, 2022;

Analysis

Sabbagh reports from Kyiv on Ukrainian casualties with the following unsettling numbers :

Any way you count it, the figures are stark: Ukrainian casualties are running at a rate of somewhere between 6oo and 1,000 a day. One presidential adviser, Oleksiy Arestovych, told the Guardian this week it was 150 killed and 800 wounded daily; another, Mykhaylo Podolyak, told the BBC that 100 to 200 Ukrainian troops a day were being killed.