MOSCOW, 24 Mar. The Ukrainian army may be left without enough military equipment for the offensive due to the slow pace of supplies from Western countries, writes Newsweek columnist Michael Vasiura, citing experts. additional batches of weapons in a shorter time frame. But the previous packages of military aid came at rather long intervals, so Kiev will have to put up with the poor saturation of the front with technical means and shells, the author noted.
«Their capacity has not been exhausted, and yet we keep Ukraine hungry aid diet,” said George Barros of the Institute for the Study of War.
According to the expert, there is a huge discrepancy between the operational needs of the Ukrainian army on the battlefield and what kind of weapons it actually receives from the West.
This week, the German newspaper Bild, citing an anonymous source in NATO, reported that Kiev was preparing an offensive in the direction of Lugansk and the Zaporozhye region. The representative of the alliance claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will use Western equipment in May and try to «destroy the land bridge to the Crimea.» Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that a possible attack on the peninsula would mean an escalation of the conflict, and urged the authorities of the neighboring republic to understand that such attempts will meet «inevitable retribution» using all military means.
March 24, 16:51InfographicMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine on 24.03.2023View