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The war in Ukraine: Is the West running out of ammunition?

2023-02-14 19:49:09Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The war in Ukraine: Is the West running out of ammunition?
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Ammunition factories are failing to meet Ukraine's high demand for ammunition to defend against Russian attacks. At the NATO meeting in Brussels, Ukraine's request for fighter jets is also discussed.

The finding is alarming: the Ukrainian army uses much more ammunition in the war against the Russian invaders than Western arms companies can produce, and this has been the case for some time, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. Ammunition factories are at capacity limits, supply time has been extended. Whoever orders large-caliber weapons today has to wait 28 months. Because the reserves of the NATO countries are being consumed, it is required that the member countries urgently sign new supply agreements, according to Stoltenberg.

"We have been taking care of this since last year. Because we have a tremendous demand in Ukraine that has been filled so far by our warehouses. But we can no longer continue like this," Stoltenberg emphasizes. "We need to produce more to supply the Ukrainian armed forces and at the same time ensure that we have enough ammunition to defend every inch of the alliance's territory."

About 50 countries at the NATO meeting in Brussels

At the NATO meeting in Brussels on Tuesday (14.02.), the request of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for fighter planes is also discussed. The so-called Ramstein conference attended by about 50 countries in Brussels at the invitation of the US will discuss further military aid to Ukraine, but no decisions are expected. Stoltenberg mentions that the war has changed, and so has the support for Ukraine - from tanks, artillery and air defense to battle tanks. Instead of discussing new weapons systems, the Allies should make it possible for "the Ukrainian military to have access to and use the weapons supplied and to have sufficient ammunition, fuel and spare parts available, before for Russia to take the initiative on the battlefield."

Speed ​​saves people's lives, said Stoltenberg, who is convinced that Putin will not end his offensive war soon, on the contrary, he has started with the offensive announced for the spring. According to the head of NATO, he has sent thousands of new soldiers to the front "to compensate for the lack of quality with quantity even though this leads to heavy losses."

At the NATO meeting, talks are also held on the alliance's future armament expenditures, more precisely, whether the target of 2% will be changed to 2.5% or even 3% of the gross domestic production for armaments. Another issue is the better protection of underwater infrastructure such as gas pipelines or power lines located on the seabed from possible attacks, as happened with the attack against Nord Stream 2. However, 100% security is not said in Brussels, for example only through the Sea of the North pass gas pipelines with a length of about 9000 km./ DW


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