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War in UkrainePentagon chief says Russia lacks artillery missiles
For Lloyd Austin, US Minister of Defense, Moscow makes extensive use of its artillery – around seventy missiles were fired on Wednesday. This might limit its actions in Ukraine.
According to the US Secretary of Defense, Russia has made extensive use of its artillery since the start of the war, firing many rockets at Ukrainian forces before any movement on the ground.
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Russia is suffering from a “significant shortage” of ammunition for its artillery, which might limit its operations in Ukraine in the future, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday. “The Russians have had logistical problems since the very beginning” of the invasion of Ukraine and “they are still struggling with logistics,” he told a group of reporters, aboard a plane. military.
They suffer from this “significant shortage of artillery missiles”, in particular because kyiv destroyed several stocks of Russian ammunition, specified the head of the Pentagon.
Sanctions penalize Moscow
Russia has used its artillery extensively since the start of the war, firing numerous rockets at Ukrainian forces before any movement on the ground. “For this kind of operation, you need a lot of ammunition. I’m not sure they have enough to allow this sort of thing in the future,” he added.
“For this kind of operation, you need a lot of ammunition. I’m not sure they have enough to allow this sort of thing in the future.”
Lloyd Austin clarified that Russian stocks of precision missiles had been “significantly reduced” during the nine months of war, and that Moscow would not be able to replace them quickly, because of trade sanctions imposed on Russia, in particular on the microprocessors.
On Wednesday, Russia fired around 70 cruise missiles at Ukraine, 51 of which were shot down, the Ukrainian Air Force said following the bombings, which caused massive power cuts and killed six people. , including a baby.
(AFP)