The author who wrote that is about 40 years old and she is a diplomat with the US State department. She was assigned to work in the Ukraine. She has a Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriya_Evans-Pritchard_Jayanti
My take away from that article is this one sentence:
"Ukraine is in far worse shape than commonly believed and needs, and will continue to need, a staggering amount of aid and support to actually win."
I believe that to be true. And I also believe that they are going to get that staggering amount of aid that they need to win.
:)