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A Pentagon official described upcoming ammunition shipments as a ‘last ditch effort’ to help Ukraine since Western stockpiles are low
Originally published on AntiWar
Ukraine is firing thousands of artillery shells each day in its battle to defend the Donbas city of Bakhmut, a pace that US and European officials don’t think is sustainable, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Two unnamed US officials told the Times that the Pentagon has raised the issue of Ukraine’s ammunition use in Bakhmut after a few days of non-stop firing. Ukraine’s war effort is entirely reliant on support from the US, as the Pentagon has shipped millions of artillery shells to the country.
The report is the latest example of Ukraine’s Western backers expressing doubt about Kyiv’s war strategy. The US wants Ukraine to launch a spring counteroffensive, but Western officials think those plans could be jeopardized by the amount of resources Ukraine is using in Bakhmut.
The US and Britain are preparing to ship thousands more artillery rounds and rockets to Ukraine to shore up its supplies for a counteroffensive. A senior Pentagon official described these shipments to the Times as a “last ditch effort” because Ukraine’s Western backers don’t have enough to keep up with Ukraine’s pace.
The US and its NATO allies were not prepared to support such an intense artillery war. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has acknowledged that Ukraine is using munitions at a much faster rate than the entire 30-member alliance can produce. The Western powers have big plans to ramp up the production of artillery rounds, but it will take months before any significant progress is made.
Ukrainian troops fighting in Bakhmut have told the media that they are already fighting with severe ammunition shortages. Ukraine is also losing a lot of people as fresh recruits are being sent into Bakhmut, which has become known as the “meat grinder,” with very little training.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top officials have decided to keep defending Bakhmut despite the dire situation for the soldiers on the ground. They say the Russians are also taking heavy casualties, which makes the city worth defending.
Poor strategy, very unprofessional of Ukraine.
brit-am warassschild adrenochrome is unsustainable. pew tin and mosshead are dealers.
Britam don’t do such things you moron.
Think, surely they know, but so far western intelligence seems lacking
U.S. “officials” are stupid and morons. We knew from last year that Ukraine would never have the ammo to fight against the Russians. The Ukraine Army can barely shoot 2,000 to 3,000 shells of various types per day. Russia has a 10 to one advantage. We know the Russians are firing at least 20k+ a day, easily. They are blowing the shit out of the AFU in cauldrons of death. It will take literal years for the U.S. Military Industrial Congressional Complex to replace all of the shells and rockets that have been blown up in Ukraine. The west has no ability to match the output of the Russian war making industry.
The hard fact is US does not have a real army since Cheney privatize them.
I’m a 200% sure that the Russian military has dozens of warehouses/bunkers packed with thousands of artillery shells, rockets, mortars and missiles.
NATO made a serious miscalculation for this war, let them pay the consequences.
This is more and more proof that the fight is Us, UK, nato against Russia.
The armaments, tanks, artillery, missils, amunition off Kiev are US, UK and nato. It is for the moment Kiev who puls the trigger. But in a few weeks, monts it will be yankees stationned in Poland and Romania and the Baltics who are to come in afther the last Ukranian will be shot. And then it will be KAABOOOOOM nukes and the whole humanity exterminated.
Thanks to the j e w ish – american war.
Ya we know that , have since Feb 2022, it’s not a secret.
Time to get some lancet drones out to the western periphery of bakhmut and harass the UAF artillery into picking up and moving.
I’d say, try to capture or destroy all of that artillery, not have them move away and then just start shooting from a different position.
Jens said that weeks ago! Yer gittin fergetfull old timer.
Why let facts interfere with a nice little Zio war?
US is the best, Russians are Orcs, why think too much?
NATO is totally delusional with their minds in the dust of the past in their bid for total global domination.They can not win a war with Russia or China and have no reason other than their own ambition to start one. Idiots like Lindsey Graham and Biden must face the realities of today and know that their globalism is no better than communism and will fail anyway.
Ihor’s got electricity again in Lwow! Good for you, Ihor. Fingers crossed that Auntie Halyna can get you out of the failed Ukrainian CIA project and bring you to Edmonton. Maybe she’ll buy you a hotdog at Costco. Try not to get caught shoplifting!
What Halyna? Halyna Hutchins?
Halyna is Galina in Russian. Ukraine’s talk with the equivalent of what in the West is a lithp. Probably the consequence of deep throating too many Americans lately, like the Poles. But what Germany’s excuse is, still can’t figure. Does Scholz have a lithp too?
Do you think both sides are playing for the same team?
Suckers war from day one!!!
Novomoskovsk, Dnepropetrovsk are on fire. This is not the usual bombing of the RF air force. This time was hell brought to earth. Fuel and arms depots intended for the spring offensive are ALL gone.
Luckily it seems that satanists don’t have enough ammunition to continue forever to shoot and kill civilians in the russian speaking regions .Let’s hope that in a short time they get completely demolished so that they won’t even have cannons and nazis to shoot anything to anybody
Bakhmut will go down in history as Ukraine’s Stalingrad.
The enormous chunk of gristle, rump Ukrapland, that choking curmudgeon, the angloZionaZi empire of shit bit off, is stuck in its scrawny throat and has it heaving in desperation. The jig is up and the entire bankrupt slum is coming down and NOTHING in this world can save it short of an alien reptilian invasion of like minded cold blooded creatures.
Natostan, like that pesky turd, is swirling the bowl and getting ready to hit the sewer, and with it the evil EUSSR and all the other demonic organiZations that Slumville has imposed on humanity since 1945. It is truly a glorious time to be alive and witness the birth of the all new “New World Order” which will not be the slave plantation that the angloZio scum have been running for the last 4 centuries. Finally let humanity rejoice as the stinking pox amerika hits the cloaca maxima of the most evil collection of filth ever ejected from the bowels of the slouching, naked apes that imagined they were gods and that divine KARMA did not apply to their Satanic majesti€$.
Onward to the end of the nightmare. Z
nato and brics are both unsustainable.
Only Al-Qaeda defacto supports that which is sustainable by definition.
War propaganda. Whatever weapons are announced in transit to Ukraine are already placed. If shortage of weapons is announced, they have abundance. If Ukraine is claimed to be winning, they’re losing and if they are losing, they must be winning. South Front solely reports Russian victories, and western media solely reports Russian loses. Take all with a grain of salt.
The Ukranian government is not Ukranian, they hate Ukranian men but not Ukranian widows