Media: The West is tired of Ukraine's demands

Unloading M777 howitzers for APU from US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. Archive photoMOSCOW, 18 Jun. The West is beginning to get tired of Ukraine's demands for the supply of weapons, writes the Japanese edition of Asahi Shimbun. Official Kyiv, as noted in the publication, has recently been increasingly raising the topic that the United States and other Western countries are providing insufficient support. The Ukrainian leadership is increasingly turning to the West for further increases in military supplies. Asahi Shimbun quotes Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar as saying that Kyiv has received only ten percent of the weapons it needs from the West. At the same time, Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that the request of Ukrainian troops for NATO artillery of 155 mm caliber was fulfilled by 90 percent. According to him, Kyiv would have enough existing weapons to fight any army in Europe, but not the Russian one. According to reports, Western countries may simply not be able to satisfy the Ukrainian side's requests for weapons, both in terms of volume and speed of supply.The Pentagon released a report on military assistance provided to KievAmid the Russian special operation to protect the Donbass, which began on February 24, the United States and NATO allies continue to pump weapons to Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly stated that the supply of Western weapons only prolongs the conflict, and transport with them becomes a legitimate target. On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian army strikes only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The main goal of the operation in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.