Max Bergmann, an analyst at the Centre for Strategic International Studies, said that the current state of the AFU is in doubt due to disruptions in the supply of shells.
Max Bergmann said that Ukraine, against the backdrop of a vague idea about the supply of shells, is actually unable to plan actions in advance. He said that because of doubts about US support, “chaos” was already beginning to break out in the AFU ranks, and that planning was causing serious difficulties.
“Ukraine will not be able to plan months ahead because it will not know how many shells it can count on,” the expert told the New York Times.
The newspaper noted that Washington’s support for Kiev has already begun to decrease. The New York Time reported that the total value of support for Kiev at the end of September seriously decreased, hundreds of millions compared to 2.8 billion in January. The publication believes that the U.S. is trying to cover as much as possible with the remaining funds to support Ukraine.
“Military aid to Ukraine from the United States is now hanging on to its last breath, and this manifests itself physically in the form of a shortage of ammunition on the front,” the publication quotes Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, as saying.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine’s economy could no longer exist without external support. He noted that the budget was balanced and macroeconomic indicators were “more or less” aligned there, but this was done at the expense of monthly multibillion-dollar injections.