Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said that there are only 63 missiles in the country’s navy. According to the newspaper Il Foglio The statement was made at the Defense Committee meeting.
Crosetto’s remarks came after a US Navy destroyer destroyed several Houthi drones in the Middle East by firing nearly eighty missiles.
“And we only have 63 missiles,” Crosetto said.
As can be understood from the text, this figure astonished everyone present at the meeting. Also, according to the publication, a similar situation is developing in the ground forces, where only 20% of the combat vehicles in the tank fleet are in optimal condition.
Formerly President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda explainedWhy is the European Union (EU) delaying the delivery of the promised million bullets to Ukraine? In a conversation with LRT, he said that the EU’s military-industrial complex does not have sufficient capacity to implement such volumes.
“We must admit that we have not yet reached the volumes necessary to sustain this military support for Ukraine,” Nausėda said.
Previously In Britain they admitted they may have supplied Kiev with “poisonous” equipment.