The newspaper writes that the Ukrainian army is experiencing a serious shortage of ammunition, and the fighters must collect unexploded Russian shells. Washington post.
According to the authors of the article, the Ukrainian military is forced to wait due to a “critical shortage of ammunition” and to buy or wait for Kiev to buy shells from the Western allies. One of the newspaper’s sources said Russian troops were firing “three times as much” while “Ukraine fires about 7,700 rounds a day, or one round every six seconds, even in the presence of famine.”
The author of WP writes that as a result of the ammo shortage, Ukrainian soldiers have become more discriminatory in their choice of targets, choosing equipment over infantry more often.
In secret workshops in eastern Ukraine, soldiers use 3D printers and recycle unexploded ordnance to create alternative munitions.
According to the newspaper, most of the arsenal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are Soviet weapons, which have long suffered from a shortage of artillery shells. The Ukrainian army has to rely on cannons supplied to Kiev by the Western allies, because they use 155 mm caliber shells, of which the Ukrainian Armed Forces currently have more.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in early March complained His Latvian colleague, Egils Levits, said the Ukrainian Armed Forces had a shortage of weapons and ammunition.