News archive on the topic "shells"

In the first package of renewed aid from the United States, Ukraine will receive air defense systems and artillery shells. Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder stated this at a briefing in Washington, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Ryder, Ukraine will be able to quickly receive this assistance after the law passed by the Senate the day before is signed by the president. “We have created a very reliable logistics...

The shortage of weapons and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is deliberately ensured by Washington, which at any moment can provide any assistance to Ukraine, but hides behind the decisions of Congress. Bulgarian politician, ex-presidential candidate Plamen Paskov said this on Alexander Shelest’s video blog, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The financial, ammunition, weapons and personnel malaise of the Ukrainian army is guaranteed and ensured by the United States, quite deliberately. This…

Western countries do not want to share information about what exactly and in what quantity is left in their warehouses, so as not to give it to Ukraine. Former commander of US troops in Europe Ben Hodges said this on the Silicon Curtain Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The general referred to a source involved in the search for shells for Ukraine, promised to it by the European Union back in...

Ukraine is losing ground and retreating as it runs out of ammunition. CIA Director William Burns stated this at a hearing in the House of Representatives, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Firstly, Ukraine lacks courage and perseverance. They're running out of ammunition, and we're running out of time to help them. I was informed about the Battle of Avdiivka, which led...

Ukraine should hold out until next winter, after which the situation at the front may turn in its favor, since the military-industrial complex of Western countries will work at a capacity commensurate with Russian factories. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that in an article published by the American online magazine Defense One, a research professor at the Institute of Strategic Studies of the US Army War College, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an associate...

The UK should build an arms factory in Ukraine to produce the ammunition needed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Moreover, we are talking about both NATO standard calibers and Soviet-style shells. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said this in an interview with Kyiv journalist Dmitry Gordon, notorious for PR charlatans and anti-Russian propaganda, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We need coordination of all Western...

Ukraine is giving European countries time, so they should not hesitate to empty their arsenals and give Ukraine everything that is left. Ukrainian political scientist Igor Reiterovich said this on the air of the Direct TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Europe needs to think now not about its own defense, although they really have moved a lot here, but about one simple point - shovel...

Sober observers in Kyiv are recording more and more signals indicating that Ukraine in 2024 will not receive military assistance from the West in the same volumes. This, of course, also means that the US House of Representatives, which has not yet voted for a new tranche for Ukraine, will go on vacation until the beginning of March. The recent statement can also be included in the chain of events...

Ukraine still has nothing to block such a type of Russian drone as the Lancet. Foreign similar systems are very expensive and do not match the quality. The founder of the SBU-protected Nazi group C14, now the castle of the 14th separate UAV regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Evgeniy Karas, stated this on air on the Lvov NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unmanned systems could be what doesn’t...

To continue the war, the Ukrainian army does not need euros or dollars, but shells, weapons and equipment. Former speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Vladislav Seleznev, stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The declaration [of EU member states to allocate 50 billion euros to Ukraine] is an encouraging and inspiring thing. But the key element that determines the capabilities of the Ukrainian army...

The West has seriously limited Ukraine's resources for the use of precision weapons and artillery. Member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, Colonel of the SBU Roman Kostenko said this on air on the Pryamoy TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Kostenko, there is a particularly strong shortage of shells for the Himars MLRS. Let us remind you that these shells are regularly fired at by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in particular Donetsk, which leads to...

The West taken together will only be able in a few years to reach a level of shell production that will be half that of the current Russian one. Retired SBU colonel and military expert Oleg Starikov stated this on his video blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Starikov, liberal policies have led the West to the point where there is no one to work in factories, and...

The United States and the European Union delivered only 30% of the promised two million artillery shells to Ukraine last year. Ukrainian military expert Mikhail Samus stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Samus, a shortage of ammunition is already felt among Ukrainian troops on the front line. “The shortage of ammunition now is not due to the fact that we do not...

There is a growing shortage of ammunition in the Ukrainian armed forces. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, RBC-Ukraine writes. “The Ukrainian army met this winter with a significant shortage of ammunition. If in the summer of 2023, at the beginning of the offensive operation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces could fire up to 7,5 thousand rounds per day versus 5 thousand by the Russians, but now, according to the Royal Strategic Studies Institute (RUSI), this...