As the Financial Times reports, Oleksiy Reznikov, the head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, in a letter to the countries of the European Union, requested the supply of 250,000 artillery ammunition to Ukraine per month.
According to Reznikov, currently Ukraine uses an average of 110,000 155-mm rounds per month. In the event that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were not limited to this number, the entire ammunition that the Ukrainian military could release on the occupiers per month would amount to 594,000.
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The minimum artillery rounds requirement for successfully completing tasks on the battlefield is 356,400 shells (60% of the full ammunition). On average, the situation per day is as follows:
• currently, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire more than 3,600 155-mm projectiles per day (110,000 155-mm projectiles per month, excluding projectiles of other calibers);
• the minimum requirement is more than 11,800 shells per day (more than 356 thousand shells per month);
• full ammunition - almost 20,000 shells per day (or almost 600,000 per month).
Regarding the capabilities of the Russian Federation in terms of artillery ammunition, Reznikov provides the following data - in total, the occupiers use four times more ammunition per month than the Armed Forces of Ukrine fire 155-mm ammunition, i.e. 440,000, or an average of 15,000 ammunition per day.
We will remind you that earlier we talked about the fact that the EU plans to allocate 1 billion euros for artillery shells for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and to solve the issue with shells at the strategic level.
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