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Ukraine 'running out of weapons' as other countries 'fail to send promised aid'
Yahoo ^ | Wed, March 23, 2022, 4:10 AM | Kate Buck

Posted on 03/23/2022 9:03:40 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

Ukraine is believed to be running out of weapons as it continues to hold off Russian forces, amid warnings some countries have failed to send promised aid.

Western nations have thrown their support behind the war-torn nation following Vladimir Putin's invasion on 24 February.

According to The Times, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told Boris Johnson that his country was getting through a week's supply of weapons in just 20 hours as the Russian attack and constant shelling comes on multiple fronts.

But while many countries have promised weapons to help bolster the Ukrainian arsenal, some have not kept up the supply.

Paul Grod, president of the Ukrainian World Congress, told the newspaper that some nations – including Germany and France – had not delivered promised arms.

Following the reports, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that further supplies of Strela missiles were on the way to Ukraine following delays.

"I can clearly say that further Strela deliveries are on the way," Baerbock told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.

"We are one of the biggest weapons suppliers in this situation, it doesn't make us proud but it's what we must do to help Ukraine," she added.

According to The Times, Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has said the military only has a fortnight of anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles left.

Some countries have sent extra weapons in previous days, which he said has only “partially improved” the situation.

Ukrainian troops are also said to have resorted to using captured Russian “trophies”, such as vehicles and other equipment, to boost its own supplies and use against the invading force.

On 9 March, British defence secretary Ben Wallace told the House of Commons that the UK had delivered 3,615 anti-tank (NLAW) weapons and would soon supply a “small consignment” of Javelin

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To: Drew68

Javelins are designed to take out tanks. That doesn’t mean they aren’t being used against trucks, other mobile equipment and troop concentrations too.


41 posted on 03/23/2022 9:35:47 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Bayard
As I commented 2 weeks ago:
I remember when France and UK attacked Libya back in 2011 and quickly ran out of bombs. They had to come begging to Uncle Sugar just to attack Libya. It would not surprise me if most of NATO still doesn’t have the ammo to fight an actual war.

NATO fails to grasp that actual war requires massive amounts of ordinance. A near peer like Russia has the ability to attack your manufacturing infrastructure, thus you need a large enough stockpile to fight for months, not days.

42 posted on 03/23/2022 9:35:48 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: NorseViking

Is Argentina listening?

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The U.K probably doesn’t care about Ukraine and just sends some stuff to show Joe Biden.


43 posted on 03/23/2022 9:36:44 AM PDT by TTFX
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To: Zhang Fei

Having shipped weapons, I can tell you it’s a long process. Companies insist on safety measures, things that go boom have to be handled by certain carriers and with various special processes. You can’t call UPS and just hand it over. The Germans, especially, lack the means of shipping weapons. Also, once they “arrive” you have to get them across a border where it’s likely going to get shot at. Just how and who is going to get the product from the border to wherever it’s going to be used? Another problem is everybody involved at every step of the way is a bureaucrat and nothing moves quickly in a bureaucracy. In order to move the product quickly, the military would have to be directly involved. Once a German truck (or any other transport type) with German soldiers go across the border Germany is at war with Russia. This is probably the holdup as the various governments have issued orders to not be THAT involved. So, you’ll find the product is stuck at various places for various problems and that could take months to sort out. To fix the problem would require a general officer to get actual troops involved, commandeer vehicles (a process in itself) and issue orders. He’d have to communicate directly with his counterpart in Ukraine. The people who ordered the transfer have zero idea of what’s involved logistically to make it happen and they obviously haven’t issued the right orders to the right people to MAKE it happen.


44 posted on 03/23/2022 9:36:47 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: Jim Noble

“Sending weapons to the Ukrainians to prolong the slaughter is immoral.”

By your logic we never should have supplied Britain during WWII. After all, in the latter part of 1940 and all of 1941 Britain was on its own, its back against the wall. It faced an existential threat. I guess it was immoral for the US to supply Britain, eh?

Well, my mother was English, and she went through that war and survived it, in large part because the US pulled out all stops to supply Britain. Had the US not done so there is a good chance I would never have been born. So, you can kiss my ass.


45 posted on 03/23/2022 9:37:30 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: NorseViking

“There is the UK’s Wallace admitting that the Brirish arsenals are empty after sending all the ATGMs to Ukraine. Is Argentina listening?”
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I think the Argentines learned their lesson well several generations ago in their last Falkland wag-the-dog adventure.


46 posted on 03/23/2022 9:37:36 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: ArcadeQuarters

What’s important is virtue signaling. Following through isn’t worth all the effort.

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How very true that is. The louder the virtue signaling the less likely they are to do anything.


47 posted on 03/23/2022 9:37:40 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: BenLurkin

Then why did we sign Assurance of Sovereignty for the Ukes in the Budapest Agreement?


48 posted on 03/23/2022 9:37:45 AM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Seruzawa

“...3,615 anti-tank (NLAW) weapons...”

They must be really bad shots if they’re spending that many rockets on a lot fewer tanks and APCs. If they’d quit paying the punk crackhead Biden bribe money, they could afford to buy munitions and get them delivered in a timely manner.


49 posted on 03/23/2022 9:39:53 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Jim Noble

Restraining orders carry a lot of weight.... eventually. Often enough times, it is after the woman has been murdered by her abuser. But I’m sure those people who make their living in the whole Restraining Order Process feel good about themselves.


50 posted on 03/23/2022 9:40:45 AM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Jim Noble

Sending weapons to the Ukrainians to prolong the slaughter is immoral.

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I guess morality is the last of their concerns. If they read your post, they’ll laugh. You made a good point, but they’re not capable of understanding it.


51 posted on 03/23/2022 9:41:28 AM PDT by TTFX
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To: Gaffer

It doesn’t take a genius to see something here doesn’t jive.


Sure it does. This is not US and Western ‘kinder, gentler’ warfare; this is medieval kill them all warfare. The purpose of the Russian ground forces is to assesses the positions and strengths of the enemy, not to actually take ground. Heavy losses in equipment and troops are to be expected. That is why the Kremlin can say everything is going according to plan.

Once the enemy positions and civilian populations are located, it is the job of the Russian Artillery detachments and VKF to reduce those areas to well-bounced rubble so that remaining troops can just mob up. If necessary, artillery pieces can be brought into cities and the buildings blasted at point blank range for those reluctant troops and citizens not previously terrorized into leaving.


52 posted on 03/23/2022 9:42:48 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Tallguy

He’s not making any military calls for strategy or tactics. Lunch Bucket Joe just repeats what he’s told. He’s braindead.


53 posted on 03/23/2022 9:43:07 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ETCM

Correct.

Weapons companies should be printing money rn.LMT is up huge ammounts since February.

Raytheon maker of Javalins sbould be up as well.

Weapons makers might just be in for a 5 year windfall on profuction at least after this. I say should, but I’m speculating.


54 posted on 03/23/2022 9:43:24 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: whitney69

Good post. Grain, steel and pipelines.

Resources are becoming increasingly critical in a growing world.

Controlling resources = power.


55 posted on 03/23/2022 9:48:30 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: carriage_hill

They must be really bad shots if they’re spending that many rockets on a lot fewer tanks and APCs

A lot fewer? out of tens of thousands of vehicles? Last I looked, only a few thousand have been taken out by the UA. Often, it takes more than one hit to take out a armored vehicle. Thee are videos of T-70s taking 4-6 hits before being destroyed.


56 posted on 03/23/2022 9:50:43 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Trinity5
Considering that the bill that has the “Ukrainian aid” in was just signed eight days ago I doubt any of that has been obligated. And the majority of the spending does not even go to Ukraine, let alone as direct cash... “Roughly half the $13.6 billion would arm Ukraine and cover the Pentagon's costs for sending U.S. troops to other Eastern European nations that might see the war spill past their borders. Much of the rest is for humanitarian and economic assistance, strengthening regional allies’ defenses and protecting their energy

I think about 1 billion goes for military supplies to Ukraine. P> Here's a list of 800 million of it.

And you're probably right. These allocations probably haven't made it through our bureaucracy yet. So we are just like the French and the Germans.

It's all too little too late.

Where is why I've been saying all along, this is a war of Russia invading Ukraine with the Global State only going through the motions.

57 posted on 03/23/2022 9:51:27 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Williams
What a vile statement to kiss Russian ass.

Pucker up sauerkraut.

58 posted on 03/23/2022 9:54:26 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: Zhang Fei

homo-erotic Zalenski is almost as popular as Greta thunberg now.
Let them eat cake! was is Romney who said that?


59 posted on 03/23/2022 9:56:03 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: Jim Noble
Sending weapons to the Ukrainians to prolong the slaughter is immoral.

Perhaps, but nobody is stopping Ukraine from surrendering. It's their call when to quit.

And besides, it will be a coons age before the Biden bureaucrats deliver those weapons.

60 posted on 03/23/2022 9:56:17 AM PDT by FreeReign
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