“Russian artillery ammunition shortages have likely worsened in recent weeks to the extent that “extremely punitive shell-rationing is in force on many parts of the front,” Britain’s Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence update Tuesday.
“This has almost certainly been a key reason why no Russian formation has recently been able to generate operationally significant offensive action,” it added.
The ministry noted that it was likely that Russia was already resorting to issuing old munitions stock which had previously been categorized as unfit for use.
The ministry noted that a presidential decree on March 3 laid down measures for Russia’s Ministry of Trade and Industry to bypass the authority of the managers of defense industries who fail to meet their production goals.
“Russia is increasingly applying the principles of a command economy to its military industrial complex because it recognises that its defence manufacturing capacity is a key vulnerability in the increasingly attritional ‘special military operation’,” the U.K. noted.”
Getting close to 2000 tanks. No need to destroy them. Probably abandoned.