Ukrainian soldiers say they are short of weapons and ammunition

yes learning to fight a heavy responsibility he’s shown how to hold an nlaw anti-tank missile then corrected when he gets it wrong other recruits watch closely then they take it in turns to have a go the trainer careful in his teaching first given to Ukraine by the UK the nlaw has been in high demand but limited stocks means the only time these soldiers will fire one for real will be in battle and even that’s not guaranteed we have a lack of nlaws and we need more what’s your message to the the factory workers back in the UK that are making these things we would like to thank our Western partners for their help but if possible we would be very grateful if they could provide more NATO Munitions Ukraine is suffering a shortage of weapons and ammunition all along its front line soldiers say for every five artillery shells fired by Russia they can only shoot back one at a base in HEV region a commander says his team tries to make every strike count often with just one two or three shells we can completely destroy a Target but his troops still need more we have to keep holding the Russians back and make every ceneter they try to take cost them hundreds of lives what we’ll do here is we’ll we’ll manufacture canisters for en missiles it’s why production lines rather than the front line could be where the war in Ukraine is W last month we visited a site in Northern Ireland where the enaw missile is assembled by a company called Talis though it’s designed by the Swedish firm Sab we’ve we’ve uh doubled our our capacity to deliver uh and there’s there’s scope again to double even further and it feels quite calm and quiet but is there intense pressure well it’s fair say everyone feels uh the pressure uh but it’s it’s controlled and very much control that no one’s under significant stress that’s for sure that’s perhaps surprising given the urgency of the requirement in Ukraine the capacity for nlaw production only began to increase here in January but obviously the war started two years before that so why did it take until the start of this year we don’t Supply Ukraine UK and mudi are supplying Ukraine so they had stocks themselves so they were granting in kind then they they go through their own procurement process then they’ll place those orders the order come a year ago you could have ramped up production sooner the earlier an order comes the sooner we can ramp up that production production lines here and at other defense companies in the UK are expanding but it will take leadership and much more money from government to ramp up capacity to the level that many believe is needed given we’re in what the defense secretary has called a pre-war world no such luxury in Ukraine where conflict is a daily reality and soldiers make do with what they’ve got Russian forces are benefiting from their economy having long been on a war footing unless the UK and Ukraine’s other allies catch up Russia’s Advantage will only grow Deborah Hayne Sky News

Ukrainian soldiers have told Sky News shortages of weapons and ammunition mean they are counting every shot they fire at advancing Russian forces.

That’s despite recent commitments from Ukraine’s NATO allies to increase production.

Sky’s security and defence editor Deborah Haynes reports.

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/russia-is-producing-artillery-shells-around-three-times-faster-than-ukraines-western-allies-and-for-about-a-quarter-of-the-cost-13143224

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29 comments

  1. why doesn't US send Ukraine its new hypersonic missiles for real combat tests on the battlefield or at least send Ukraine new propulsion systems for installation onto Ukrainian indigenous missiles?

  7. Ukraine asked for weapons, about 40 country sent them weapons. Imagine the difficulty to handle all those different equipment. — It is over. The only question is how many young men has to die for a lost cause?

  11. Anyone see the rumble vid from a fresh UA recruit snatched off the streets with 3 other guys. Three days later, after being dropped off at the frontline trench, within a few hours he was the only one still alive…

  13. UKRAINIANS will never ever go back to pre 2022 Borders..more this war continue Ukraine will be smaller… Zelensky needs to sit on negotiation table…

  15. The Ukrainians made a big mistake believing that they would join NATO without any complaints from Russia. Russia did complain and as a result Ukraine will be reduced to a peripheral country on a Western thread.

  16. On the night of May 26, the Russian military launched a massive combined attack on the Ukrainian military facilities across Ukraine. In total, the Ukrainian military in the rear regions came under at least two massive waves of attacks. According to local reports, the targets included only military facilities in Ukraine.

    The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine traditionally reported that Ukrainian air defense allegedly repelled the night attack. According to the report, the Ukrainian air defense forces shot down all targets, except hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. The Air Force claims to have shot down 12 X-101 missiles and 31 Geran UAVs. Based on these data, only two Dagger missiles hit the targets. However, the official reports by the Ukrainian military rarely correspond to reality.

    The attack reportedly began at about 3 a.m. local time. The first wave of drone strikes targeted western central and southern regions. Russian Geran UAVs destroyed targets in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnitsky, Poltava, Cherkasy and Odessa regions.

    Cruise missiles launched by a dozen TU-95MS and TU-22M3 missile carriers and MiG-31 with Kinzhal missiles hit targets in the Khmelnitsky, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Ternopil, Kirovograd, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kiev regions. One of the targets was the Starokonstantinov military airfield near the city of Khmelnitsky. It was reportedly struck by kamikaze UAVs, Kinzhal (Dagger) and X-101 missiles. The Starokonstantinov airfield, where the 7th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force and Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missile carriers were based, was subjected to the most intense strikes last night. The airfield has suffered heavy damage.

    According to unconfirmed reports, other targets hit last night could be the Ivano-Frankivsk airfield, where the 114th tactical aviation brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force is based, as well as the Vinnytsia airfield, where the 456th transport brigade is based. The airfield in Vinnytsia previously came under several heavy attacks.

    Another missile strike that was likely launched in the daytime destroyed facilities at the Zaporozhye airport used by the Ukrainian military. The air harbor has not been used for civil purposes since February 2022. As a result of the attack, the building where the Ukrainian military most likely stored ammunition was destroyed.

  28. This has only improved their management of munition. Count your bullets , increase your lethality coefficient and survive realistically is the only policy that works in a war.

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