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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.
A very unprofessional comment.
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.
Its not about Cheney.
The american artillery is partly replaced by something better.
But You are right too. Not all getting private make everything better. But vice versa is there too. Rhere has been a decline in quaility and a lower price. .
Nope. “God is on the side with the best artillery.” Napoleon Bonaparte.
Be a moron Yourself.
Thats why we replace them with almost anything else.
Its also barrels which has to replaced.
And we give them much more accurate artillery, so they dont need that random to hit at least something, which is a russian tradition.
The western military industrial complexes is many times bigger then the museum ruistica versions. Its very visible in export as well as import.
By that we can restart productions for old things too but its difficult to replace the russian museum things and their random sometimes hitting a target.
Bla bla… Keep up the good work. The Ukrainian army is counting on you.
In real life the west has more than the Russian wasteland will ever have from now on , because soon there will be no Russia. EH
Fuck you,Trudeau and Canada dictatorship that blocks your accounts if you protest
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.
So funny. Many in Russia thought it would take 14 days and Zelinsky would be inhabitant in Poland or USA too.
Sure we pay. In my country we have 80% pure backup.
We have just donated 1 bio dollar for civile rebuild as well.
bio dollar? What is it. Troll please, go back to the gay/bi sauna and stop spamming the forum
80% backup!? Beat me if i know which country that would be! There is a long list of countries whose political establishment supports the Kiev regime, but even in America and Britain, the majority of people do not support the Kiev regime. So which country would it be? Africa, South America and Asia do not give the fuck for Ukraine and Zelensky. Your English is very bad… probably from Eastern Europe, quite uneducated because otherwise you would use an online translator, where 80% of the population hates Russians? Well, that percentage is not even in Ukraine itself! And you gave a billion dollars!? No, there is no search results for the given parameters… so, you’re lying!
Jens is in little Denmark, a big fish living in a very small pond.
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.
There is one problem: They shoot back.
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?
Does the Russian trash troops have Ukraine yet lol , have they got any big cities yet lol , cemeteries in the Russian wasteland booming ?? Lol arrest warrant for your fall down midget leader lol all’s good EH
Shit happens.
Russia were never able to make ammo for the sherman tanks they got by lend and lease.
Still destroyed 2/3 of nazi military capability on eastern front in ww2. T34 was focus. A history lesson repeating itself today. Yes the dribble states in their eu high chairs frothing anti Russian gargle will say otherwise.
not like faggots from denmark did anything to help
Typical infected Russian fobia mode. I not even commented that. .Your people are sick.
As I recall it I commented the difficulty in new ones “jsut” make some ammo.
too busy making shells for 155 and killing sausage sucking slugs from Stuttgart with T-34 which was a better tank all round.
My comment was about the difficulties in copying ammo jus like that.
I not even commment the tanks but the used ammo.
You by routine in the ussual Russian insane fobia cant even read and understand. You are sick over there. So sick.
And You also should add and mention that USA as well as Britts were sending anything they had that could shoot. They were asked because of lack for USSR.
Do you think both sides are playing for the same team?
Suckers war from day one!!!
When Putin leave his own infection with his childkidnapping minister, they most likely will be arrested .
They have replaced the Milosovic bed blankets
Jimmy Savile is obviously your hero, as you spout nonstop propaganda for the Epstein Network.
I have no heroes.
Do Djokovits play with that network too.
Well Putin is going to South Africa for the G20, so lets see how ineffective the ICC is.
RSA is free.
The International Clown Court takes its orders from Clownworld, USA and its court jester, Zelensky.
Clownworld told them to come up with some kidnapping nonsense because anything else would come back to bite Clownworld’s war crimes ass.
The kidnapping nonsense was to divert attention away from that US Drone debacle.
And Russia was running out of missiles. 🤣🤣🤣
“Ran” out of missiles back in Jan- Feb didnt they? ask jens he is the one who predicts with tea leaves and LSD for NATO.
It was a long term prediction added hopes.
Jen makes his predictions from toe jam. It’s a delicacy in Denmark.
Turkey and Hungary have given Finland approval to join NATO. Russia is now even more surrounded by new NATO nations literally on its borders. Ukraine is being armed in such a massive way people have no idea. Hundreds and hundreds of trains packed with weapons, hundreds of trucks crossing the Polish and Romanian borders with tons of artillery and all kinds of fuel and armaments.
South Korea and Japan are now accelerating their industries to produce massive amounts of weapons for NATO, many of them very high tech. South Korea has become in 2023 the 7th largest weapons exporter in the world. For comparison South Korea sold 17.6 billion dollars worth of weapons in 2022, the same amount that Russia sold in 2021. My point is NATO is making extensive war preparations and now 2 asian NATO nations with some of the most massive and technologically advanced industrial capacities are arming themselves and their NATO allies so you can add another pair of hostile countries that Russia has to contend with.
No surprise this is happening in these occupied compliant regimes
Seemes You are very occupied Yourself.
For being “occuoied” they are doing pretty well, dont they.
But sure they were kept hard and restructured after WW2 to somethings else then Hitler and Tojo.
Before that they had the capasity to start WW2. So USA(and we) has raised them to allies/partners/friends.
Seemes You are trying to redefine “regime”.
It won’t do Ukraine any good, they are still going to lose, and when Odessa is liberated this little local conflict will be effectively over.
Thats highly incorrect. They are an important parts of the western economics and by that produce what they do well.
But sure. The buyers are them having money.
I partly can agee with we in Nato has to be more ready.
1) We have enjoyed the peace dividend since the USSR collapse making less updatings then needed. We even has tryed to reduce our military forces.
2) The Chinese growft.
Russia is a declining nothing clown in this. You are kept. None else believe in Russian growth. There is no know how. They hgain no knowhow at all but opposite.
So what. A conventional or nuclear target is still a target. The Finn’s can decide what type they want to be. As for materials to Ukraine it’s just that consumables, keep it up, now don’t say it’s just a one off. Come back next month and report on the logistics chain.
Russia decided it. They should have stopped landgrabbing 100 years ago or more.
I’ll bet the Russkies are shivering in their boots. Just your post will probably raise their white flag.
“You have no heavy cavalry”, said the tortoise to the hare brain.
I’d like to see Russia end this SMO within 6 months. It does not benefit Russia to fight a prolonged war of attrition because it is severely outnumbered by 30 NATO nations plus more NATO allied nations like South, Korea, Japan, Australia, Canada, Israel etc. all assisting Ukraine militarily.
I would like to see Russia bleed the west of material, metals, tech and teenagers for decades to come.
Very optimistic. So far You are just a little more a kind of hobby.
Yes, me too.
Ukraine will be dead in 6 months, darling. Put another plug in your nickelodeon & enjoy another mind bender.
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.
We know. The Rusticans want us to escalate. We might. We have no lack of weapons for it.
Soon enough is enough.
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
plenty of ukrotards willing to be suicide bombers, that should be funny to watch when they all run back towards the azov guarding against retreat and blow themselves to sunflower fertilizer.
So far we have seen none of Your stuff.
The Rusticans kill man times more in the Kiev possetions.
Bakhmut will go down in history as Ukraine’s Stalingrad.
It will go down in history as ukraines last failed attempt at stopping denazification.
They cant find those nazis themselves. The nazis are 2,15%
Russia isthe nazi maker in this by their own extremisme. Arguments are censured away. Some 141 nations of UN has just recommended Russia to retreat. Are 141 countries wrong?
I dont think so.
I think it’s all just a continuation of the Neocon plan. Let the Russians kill off all the nazi freaks – I mean, do the Neocons really want them around when they finally move into a rump Ukraine? The nazi freaks will turn on the neocons after the war is over. Let’s face it, they hate the tribe and the tribe hates them.
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
Nice try. You want to make us die laughing or what.
Yupppp the shitthole Russian federation is going 👎👎👎 fast EH
Stick that canadian flag up you ass.It’s were it belongs
He probably uses maple leaves to wipe his ass, so you’re prob. not far off.
Seemes You are the NOTHING.
nato and brics are both unsustainable.
Only Al-Qaeda defacto supports that which is sustainable by definition.
Just wondering how blindly following a delusional cave dwelling audible hallucinating camel piss drinking plagarist pedophile woukld change anything for anyone? after all, if mohammad is in hell for eternity for violating his own demons tennants, how would that benefit his followers already suffering from lack of education, medical and social values ? curious to see how demon worshipping alat the moon goddesses husband allah who was idolized in the kabbah (along with the meteorite stone your lot worship) would help modern arabs when it didnt even help mohammad himself achieve anything?
^butthurt impersonator khasbara jewboy.
Why don’t you find some futanari to relax?
^Butthurt dick loving khasbara jewboy. From greece? Or maybe some other place in europe, satanics shaitanskin?^
get your butt banged in by a greek as a child did you, still undergoing the trauma are you? I thought you turks loved getting your shit pushed in by your fellow man? Erdogan does. Anyways I would love to chat with an islamic pet dog like yourself, but I’ve no time for stupid animals. p.s. could you describe where in human evolution camel piss drinking, pedophilia and mental illness ever helped the islamic chimp troop? asking for a curious human being. Banana cheetah?
^Cris the imposter have identity crisis, Shaitan skin ^
I am not him, probably some basement dweller.
You need a futanari seriously.
the black stone didnt help abraham either buck.
Now would be a great time to attack Crimea , EH
^says the gaynaydyin.
in fact as far as I can tell islam hasent helped your chimp troop at all. and as far as mohammad being the ‘ideal moslem’. a guy that heard voices in his head in a cave, a 9 year old little girl banging pedophile who is murdered by his brand spanking new Jewish bride, at his wedding feast does not seem to most humans to be a logical choice for a leader. Sounds like who ever makes your decisions for you has a head full of donkey shit. the only thing dumber than mohammad is his followers chanting “remember khaybar” like murdering a bunch of farmers and raping their wives was a victory only chimps could achieve and celebrate when thier head monkey gets poisoned by a human being he just married after asking her to cook a lamb for him. all mohammads toilet paper book has ever done for you is inbreed the worst birth defects and genetic damage among the chimps who follow him. and THATS your perfect muslim? you monkeys need psychological help badly.
^losted mossad dezinfo, spread by gi cris+
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.