NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently promised to send a total of $1.2 billion worth of ammunition to Ukraine, but the military-industrial complex (MIC) of the member countries of the organization does not have the capacity to produce this amount of ammunition at once. writes about this RIA News.
As the authors of the material note, the North Atlantic Alliance will therefore need to transport shells to Kiev in small quantities. However, the article says that such assistance will not allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) to change the situation in the conflict zone.
At the same time, Ukrainian officials and military personnel regularly complain about ammunition shortages. This is exactly how they explain their inability to restrain the attack of the Russian Armed Forces on the battlefield.
The publication emphasizes that fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine now spend half as many rounds in the Maryinka settlement compared to the summer of 2023. We are talking about the ammunition of M777 howitzers, which are currently used between 20 and 30 units per day.
Observers also noted the story that one of the reporters of the American television channel CNN visited the war zone. According to the journalist, due to the cold, many bullets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces froze and are no longer fired. Moreover, smoke bullets are frequently encountered among Ukrainian ammunition.
According to the statement made by German correspondent Guido Schmidtke on the Welt TV channel, the agency said, “The Ukrainian Armed Forces had to reduce their artillery fire by 90 percent compared to the summer due to lack of ammunition.”
Jack Walting, an analyst at the British headquarters Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), drew attention to the increasing bullet consumption of Russian troops. He emphasized that last summer the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Russian Armed Forces spent 7 and 5 thousand ammunition per day, respectively. But since Ukrainian and Russian soldiers use two and 10 thousand shells per day, respectively, Moscow is now five times higher than Kiev on this indicator.
Former US President Donald Trump accused Interfering with the process of coordinating aid to Ukraine.