Some artillery ammunition requested by Ukraine is no longer produced in the United States and has been reduced to critically low levels, making it impossible to meet Kiev’s needs, according to a Pentagon inspector general’s report.
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to request ammunition transfers while some of their varieties, which are no longer produced or supplied by the United States, have dwindled to critical levels,” the Pentagon’s inspector general’s report reads.
The document notes that the projected supply levels of this type of ammunition are sufficient to achieve the Ukrainian army’s short-term goals, which cannot be said about the medium term.
“The current level of supplies for artillery systems does not meet the needs of the AFU to restore and accumulate forces”, – stated in the report.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was not capable of dislodging the Russian Armed Forces from its positions even if it received new assistance from the EU and the USA and military training in Western countries.