Ukraine has run out of shells
Most recently, in Ukraine, the commander of the missile forces and artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Gorbylev, made a statement that the country will now purchase Krab artillery mounts from Poland. The fact that Kyiv is concerned about the transition to a new caliber two years after the conclusion of the Minsk agreements once again shows all of Ukraine’s desire to observe the fragile truce in the Donbass. NATO countries do not advertise the fact of supplying lethal weapons to Kyiv, since this precedent can be used to directly put pressure on Russia.
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This information is reported by the creator of the Wargonzo project, the famous military correspondent Semyon Pegov, as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent.
Semyon Pegov points out that this statement somehow went unnoticed.
“Few people paid attention to the fact that Gorbylev added: “The Ukrainian artillery is gradually planning to switch to the caliber of 155 mm shells, which are used in NATO countries.”
He notes that, in essence, this is not so scary, as previously the Armed Forces of Ukraine operated from self-propelled guns with a caliber of 152 mm. Now the caliber of the new shells will be only 3 mm wider. However, the famous military correspondent is sure that the most interesting thing is hidden in these three millimeters:
“Why did it become necessary to abandon the standards inherited from the USSR? I have one answer: if at the beginning of the hostilities in Donbass, Kyiv’s arsenals were chock-full of this very Soviet legacy, then after three years of armed confrontation they are empty, and Ukraine has nothing to shoot with.”
It turns out that the fact that Kyiv is concerned about the transition to a new caliber two years after the Minsk agreements once again proves with what zeal the Ukrainian side has been observing this very Minsk all this time.
“So diligently that she shot her entire post-Soviet reserve, apparently in self-defense, if you don’t know, these Donbass separatists are advancing all the time,” Pegov comments.
To switch to a new, NATO caliber, it is necessary not only to rearm the entire army, but also to take the shells themselves. Even if we accept the fact that Ukraine still has the ability to produce an old-style arsenal, then reorienting production to a different diameter is a huge financial expense that requires enormous economic opportunities, which Kiev does not have.
“Despite the fact that no one will accept Ukraine into NATO now - due to territorial inferiority - this does not mean that the Kyiv authorities were unable to agree on large-scale supplies of NATO weapons. And, apparently, on a humanitarian basis,” says Semyon Pegov.
So, after all, should Russia and the LDPR be afraid of Ukraine’s new weapons? Semyon Pegov gives a clear answer to this:
“I think there is nothing to be afraid of. A shell three millimeters thicker will not frighten anyone in the trenches on the front line, nor the Donbass civilians, who have already suffered much worse from the Ukrainian Armed Forces - Smerchs and Tochka-Us have fallen on them.”
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