On September 18, Lieutenant Colonel Tyson Wetzel was quoted in 19FortyFive for his article in the Atlantic Council’s “Airpower after Ukraine” series regarding why Russia failed to achieve air supremacy in Ukraine.
Russian forces have failed to control the skies, and have suffered huge aircraft losses that have hindered their air support for the ground invasion.
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