LPR People’s Militia retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko reported TASSThat the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) began to suffer non-combat losses due to low-quality shells.
According to intelligence quoted by Marochko, the Ukrainian army received semi-manufactured and defective ammunition.
As a result, such shells explode already inside the hole, and the gunners are injured.
Marochko added that because of these events, the Ukrainian army had to manually sort the ammunition, which affected the effectiveness and speed of fire.
formerly Marochko declarationThe fact that a significant part of the positions and trenches of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Svatovo region was flooded due to the rise of groundwater caused acute respiratory diseases and pneumonia in the Ukrainian army.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
Source: Gazeta
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