Ukraine Forces Forced to Stop Russian Bombing, US Ammo Famine: Report

• A Ukrainian soldier says he has stopped firing on small Russian units, according to The Times of London.
• Sergeant Taras “Fizruk” told the newspaper that his unit was running low on American ammunition.
• The US and NATO have struggled to comply with Ukraine’s use of ammunition.

A Ukrainian soldier said he had stopped shooting at small Russian units because his bandits were running out of US-supplied anti-aircraft guns. in The Times of London.

“When there are two or three soldiers, I don’t shoot anymore, but when it’s a serious situation, say, ten guys are close to our soldier, we work,” said Sergeant Taras “Fizruk” in the newspaper.

The 31-year-old man said that he and his friends from the 47th Mechanized Brigade “shot ten times as many guns in the summer”. in the newspaper.

“American rounds come in groups of almost the same weight, which makes it easier to fire, and there are fewer bullets, so there are shells from all over the world and different characters, and only 15 are available for three days. get a group full of bad things.”

The lack of shells, Fizruk said, has hampered his unit’s control of the northern part of Avdviivka in eastern Ukraine and their ability to fire on Russian soldiers.

“We have to control our group from 4km away, so we can kill a few hundred Russian soldiers before they reach our team, and we only take a few wounded, ” he told the newspaper, adding: “But without bullets, we can do it. ‘t.”

European supplies are at the ‘bottom of the barrel’

US and NATO forces are struggling to meet Ukraine’s demand for shells and ammunition, along with the West’s stockpile of weapons.

Ukrainian team is burned by artillery shells and ammunition at a rate of about 7,000 rounds per day, according to figures from Ministry of defense of Estonia.

And the supplies in the West are now at the “bottom of the barrel,” Admiral Rob Bauer of the Netherlands, who heads NATO’s Military Committee, said at the Warsaw Security Forum meeting in October.

“We need large volumes. Right on time, only the wealth that we are building together in 30 years in our financial wealth is good for many things – not the armed forces if there is a war going on,” he said, on the BBC.

The issue has been raised by Republicans in Congress, you threatened to withhold vital aid to Ukraineincluding ammunition, a defining element in front-line warfare.

Andriy Yermak, the head of the office of the president of Ukraine, said that the delay of the Congress in providing aid to Ukraine will “make it impossible to continue the liberation of the territories and create a high level of loss of value,” in The New Voice of Ukraine.

New aid given to Ukraine reached a “new low” between August and October, with a 90% drop compared to the same period in 2022, according to a report compiled by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

The Kiel Institute, which tracked aid promised and sent to Ukraine, said a updates on Thursday despite the delay in the packaging of new American aid next year, but the promise of the EU to supply one million boxes of ammunition has been stopped.

Israel’s war with Hamas could also divert tens of thousands of missiles originally planned for Ukraine, Axios reported in October.

Despite the presence of German Leopard 2 tanks and American Bradley M1 combat vehicles, Fizruk told the Times of London that his unit could not break through Russian defense lines without artillery shells.

In order to fix the problem, Fizruk told the newspaper that his group is now using unmanned drones to harass Russian soldiers and collect money for weapons they can buy.