According to an American magazine, artillery pieces supplied to Ukraine by the West are increasingly failing, and stocks of shells for them are running out. foreign policy.
According to the publication, a group of congressmen from the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States urged President Joe Biden to begin shipments of cluster munitions to Ukraine to overcome the problems with Western weapons and the shortage of ammunition.
The magazine notes that supporters of the supply of fragmentary ammunition insist on the urgency of shipping them to Ukraine, as more artillery pieces previously delivered failed due to wear and tear, and the number of shells for them was critically low.
Advanced dual-use ammunition “could kill many more Russians”, according to Dan Rice, former special adviser to the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (APU) Valeriy Zaluzhny. Therefore, to disable a platoon or company of Russian troops, it can be managed using a much smaller number of shells. Rice emphasized that this ammunition has a shaped charge that can pierce armor 10 to 20 cm thick.
The article cites experts’ concerns that cluster munitions are randomly distributed and could easily be mistaken for toys or rubbish by civilians.
Former Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba declarationThe main problems of the Ukrainian counteroffensive are the success of Russian aviation in the air and the unstable supply of the required amount of shells.