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Ukraine faces ammunition crisis as air defence missiles dwindle
The Telegraph ^ | 16 March 2024 | James Kilner

Posted on 03/20/2024 8:12:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Ukraine is running so low on ammunition that it will run out of air defence missiles to defend its cities by the end of the month, according to reports.

Supplies of missiles defending cities such as Odesa – where 20 people were killed on Friday – are dwindling fast, according to Ukrainian sources quoted by The Washington Post.

That means that instead of trying to shoot down four out of five Russian missiles as it does now, Ukraine will soon have to ration its air defence systems to shooting down just one in five.

This will have a “significant effect on Ukraine’s urban centres”, The Washington Post quoted two Ukrainian officials as telling US officials at a security conference this year.

Politicians in the US are locked in a fierce debate on whether to maintain military aid to Ukraine, which currently stands at around £31.3 billion.

This week Viktor Orban, Hungary’s Prime Minister, said that Donald Trump, the presumed Republican candidate at this year’s US presidential election had told him that he would not give any more cash to Ukraine.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: jameskilner; killkillkillforpeace; panhandlers; ukraine
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To: Eccl 10:2

“After Ukraine wins - send them money for reconstruction!!!”


21 posted on 03/20/2024 9:01:50 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Karl Spooner

Does that guy have any new gay music videos coming out?


22 posted on 03/20/2024 9:01:51 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

You made a fake claim that we have not done anything to increase production.

While America isn’t on a war footing we have recognized the need for larger ammo stocks and have greatly increased production and opened new factories, and are doing it for long term production that is economically sound.


23 posted on 03/20/2024 9:03:16 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Patriot systems are too complex, too few in number, and far too expensive for Ukraine.


24 posted on 03/20/2024 9:11:59 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ansel12

Our production increase and projected increases are feeble at best compared to what the Russians are producing. They out produce everyone combined.


25 posted on 03/20/2024 9:12:03 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: MinorityRepublican
Advantage goes to Putin.

Russia has always had the ‘advantage’ in this imperialist adventure. They just continue to play their hand poorly.

26 posted on 03/20/2024 9:12:30 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Delta 21

27 posted on 03/20/2024 9:14:12 PM PDT by Allegra (Does this tagline make my brain look smaller? Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Русские свиньи, идите домой! Derp)
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To: Karl Spooner

LOL, we aren’t Russia and we aren’t reshaping our economy to fight a desperate war, what we and our allies in
Europe and the Pacific are doing is getting ourselves better prepared than we were 2 years ago.

That is a good thing.


28 posted on 03/20/2024 9:18:04 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ukraine didn’t have the wherewithal to begin with. They were too busy lining their politicians Oligarchs pockets to build up their own capabilities on anything....thus a debtor as par for the course.


29 posted on 03/20/2024 9:19:48 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: ansel12
what we and our allies in Europe and the Pacific are doing is getting ourselves better prepared than we were 2 years ago.

You are delusional. Russia is headed up and the west is headed down.

30 posted on 03/20/2024 9:23:39 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: MinorityRepublican

Low on ammo? Not our problem.


31 posted on 03/20/2024 9:24:03 PM PDT by Kevin in California (EP)
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To: Karl Spooner

That isn’t what I’m seeing, the West and our Pacific allies are more united and increasing military budgets, signing new weapons contracts, taking stock of which weapons best fit the modern battlefield and Naval threats and building weapons factories, and watching and learning from the biggest European war since WWII being fought by and the massive naval losses by what is considered our number one, or number two enemy.


32 posted on 03/20/2024 9:34:18 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Best if they completely run out, so that when they surrender or sue for peace there are none to find there way onto the arms market.


33 posted on 03/20/2024 9:34:43 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: Kevin in California
Low on ammo? Not our problem.

But how can we make war with China like we want if we are low on ammo? It should be clear by now that the US is being run by insane corrupt people.

34 posted on 03/20/2024 9:35:52 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Kevin in California
Low on ammo? Not our problem.

Actually, it is a US problem now, and a big one. The country can still conduct an air and sea war, but cannot fight a ground war. The army does not have sufficient artillery ammunition (Ukes fired it all) and will be short for several years.

35 posted on 03/20/2024 9:40:23 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: ansel12

To put it simply, the US and our satellite nations do not have the industrial base any longer to produce anything of consequence for big wars. It all went to China. Russia maintained their standby capacity plants in case of invasions, which they know all to well, unlike the US.


36 posted on 03/20/2024 9:46:56 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Right. We are geared for little bitty countries with extremely expensive, extremely complicated, high maintenance equipment much of which is not suited for combat in many areas of the world. It is designed that way for the war industry so they and congress can make lots of money !


37 posted on 03/20/2024 9:59:32 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Karl Spooner

Good luck with that, as an American I see vast improvements over where NATO, America, and the Pacific allies were 2 years ago, it was great to get an effective wake-up call without having to learn it in a war.


38 posted on 03/20/2024 10:00:54 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m utterly furious that Biden gave these idiots so many weapons that, as Trump’s military advisor said, “We can’t defend ourselves.”


39 posted on 03/20/2024 10:08:51 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: hardspunned

Glide bombs are a huge problem for Ukraine.


40 posted on 03/20/2024 10:09:18 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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