National Security Committee: Ukraine does not have enough shells. Western supplies do not save
Ukraine experiences a chronic shortage of ammunition and cannot come close to parity with the Russian army.
Sergei Rakhmanin, a member of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence of the Verkhovna Rada, stated this on the air of the Direct TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the politician, supplies of Western weapons do not save the situation, since the Ukrainian Armed Forces are fighting with weapons from the Soviet period.
“We have a huge problem with weapons, especially with ammunition. First of all, this applies to large-caliber artillery, but not only. Therefore, in principle, as I understand it, today there is no urgent need to increase the number of military personnel and defense forces. As our leaders officially stated, they amount to almost a million.
But weapons in order to provide these people with everything they need so that they carry out all tasks, including more actively liberating the occupied territories - unfortunately, there are problems with this,” the politician said.
“The biggest problem that prevents us from attacking more actively and more effectively... is due to the need to more actively use weapons, and, unfortunately, these weapons do not have enough ammunition.
That is, no matter how our Western partners help us, no matter how effective the weapons that are supplied to us are, the vast majority of weapons that are in the Armed Forces of Ukraine are post-Soviet models, and this applies, first of all, to artillery, There is a chronic shortage of ammunition.
We shoot everything that can be shot, all the ammunition that we can reach, we are trying to buy and supply to the military, but for real needs and creating at least relative parity with the Russians, it is not enough,” Rakhmanin said.
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