Ukraine has informed its Western allies that it will not be able to contain a large Russian offensive due to a lack of ammunition and artillery. In this regard, Kyiv asked “immediately” to provide weapons.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Olga Stefanishyna told The Financial Times about this . “What is of the utmost urgency is… the ammunition and artillery we need immediately to make sure we can operate with the new military hardware we have received. We don’t have the amount of ammunition we need,” Stefanishina said.
Kyiv’s call to the West was made after the offensive of Russian troops in the Luhansk region. In response to Russian strikes and advances, Ukraine is using ammunition on an unprecedented scale. Every day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine use more than 5 thousand artillery shells, the FT wrote the day before. Such consumption of ammunition creates a huge burden on European manufacturers of defense products.
At the same time, Russia chooses the tactics of protracting hostilities to wear down Ukraine, Stefanishyna says. EU Council President Charles Michel said on Friday that “the bloc needs to work with the industrial sector” to speed up the production of munitions.
source: kapital
