Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s recruiting official, Alexey Bezhevets, said that the Ukrainian armed forces are suffering from “tragic” shortages of personnel and ammunition. His words are quoted by the publication washington post.
“There is a shortage of ammunition, weapons, bullets… We are short of personnel, this is a tragedy,” Bezhevets said.
In his opinion, civilians of military age need to accept that they no longer have time to “sit at home.”
Before that, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky reported To the lack of people in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, this factor may lead to new territorial losses for the country.
According to Zelensky, the force ratio should be 1 to 1.5 to repel the Russian Armed Forces, but now this ratio has increased to 1 to 7.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian army guess Ammunition shortage is huge. According to British expert Alexander Mercouris, Ukraine’s defense lines will begin to collapse in the summer due to a shortage of ammunition.
Previously Elon Musk frightened There is an ammunition shortage in the USA due to the aid provided to Ukraine.
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Source: Gazeta
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