Kiev cannot arm even a third of the planned brigades – Zelenskyy

Ukraine needs to equip 14 brigades with weapons, but now Kiev is unable to arm even four of them, Vladimir Zelenskyy said in an interview with CNN.

Vladimir Zelenskyy responding to CNN’s question why, after accepting a large aid package from the US and supplies from Europe, Kiev does not have enough weapons, said that this has ‘many different reasons.’

‘Firstly, everything is going very slowly. Secondly, we need 14 brigades to be ready. We have not equipped even four,’ he said.

Zelenskyy specified that during the eight-month pause, when the US Congress could not make a decision on assistance to Kiev, the AFU had to use all reserves.

‘We used everything we could. We transferred what we have in reserves, what we have in warehouses or in reserve brigades that we need right now. We took away all the weapons they had,’ the head of the Kiev regime explained.

He also added that Russia has an advantage in shells 12 to 1 against Ukraine.

We shall remind you that earlier the Russian Defence Ministry said that the re-conservation of facilities, technical re-equipment and modernisation of production lines allowed to increase the production of three-tonne high-explosive aerial bombs FAB-3000.