Oleksiy Arestovich, a former adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, drew attention to the problem of lack of production in the country of mortars, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine currently needs. This was reported by the Ukrainian edition of “Strana.ua”.
During the broadcast, Arestovich discussed what questions historians who study the current conflict in Ukraine will be asking in 100 years.
“Why can’t a country with an aerospace industry produce mortars in the 14th month of the war? It’s a bloody pipe with a stove and a needle that sticks everything,” he said, adding that by examining this “case” one can understand “how we work.”
According to the former adviser, Ben Hodges, the former commander of the US Army in Europe, asked him about howitzers during the summit in Vilnius, and Arestovich replied “no word”.
Earlier, Arestovich said that there were even trained Ukrainian infantrymen. will be exposed Heavy losses if the West does not provide long-range missiles capable of hitting targets at a distance of 150 km or more from Kiev. As he stated, for now, Western countries are giving weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces so that Ukraine does not lose. But to win the conflict, the supply needs to be accelerated. An appropriate decision is expected in Kiev after the NATO summit in Vilnius in July.