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Ukraine is increasingly lacking ammunition to fight, while Russia continues to increase its ammunition production, aided by North Korea. In fact, Ukraine says Russia got one million artillery shells from North Korea at a time when Ukraine is having difficulty getting supplies from its ally.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy himself made the statement. “Intelligence confirms that Russia will receive one million artillery shells from Pyongyang,” Zelenskyy said in his speech, quoted by detikINET from Insider.
“Meanwhile, unfortunately the implementation of Europe’s plans to supply one million artillery shells to Ukraine is delayed,” he said.
Yes, the European Union did not send a million ammunition to Ukraine as promised in March last year, because production levels were still lagging behind. The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said he had delivered 330,000 rounds of artillery ammunition to Ukraine between March 2023 and January, and he expected to deliver a total of 524,000 rounds by March 2024, half of what was promised.
“But this is still a work in progress. The whole machine in the European defense industry is working, and member countries are giving orders for it,” he said.
Meanwhile, Republicans in the United States continue to block a USD 66 billion aid package for Ukraine. The gap in arms supplies to Russia and Ukraine has real consequences on the battlefield.
The Ukrainian army is reportedly having difficulty repelling massive Russian attacks and is due to a shortage of ammunition provided by Western countries and high levels of Russian production.
Ukraine is limited to firing 2,000 artillery shells a day, or roughly a third as much as Russia. In his speech, Zelenskyy said that North Korea sending more than a million artillery shells to Russia was a signal of global competition, in which Europe should not lose.
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2024-02-05 05:20:42
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