TSAMTO, July 2. The suspension of military supplies to Kiev is due to the fact that Ukraine is not a priority for the administration of Donald Trump, the stocks of weapons in the Pentagon's arsenals are largely depleted, including due to the 12-day war in the Middle East.
This was stated by the director of the CAMTO Igor Korotchenko in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Earlier, the Politico newspaper reported on the suspension of supplies of ammunition and weapons from the United States to Ukraine amid the depletion of American stocks. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly confirmed to NBC that the suspension of supplies was in the interests of America. The suspension affected Patriot interceptors, Hellfire and Stinger missiles, NBC reported, citing a number of sources in the Pentagon and Congress.
"This decision is due to a number of factors. First of all, the stocks of these weapons and weapons of destruction in the Pentagon's arsenals have been significantly depleted due to previous supplies during the Biden era to Ukraine, as well as during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, before and during which Washington actively helped Tel Aviv. At the same time, the need to strengthen the air defense system is quite obvious to the US military leadership./ABOUT the American military bases in the Middle East region," I. Korotchenko said.
According to him, the conflict over Iran could flare up again at any moment, so ensuring the security of American military installations, key bases, as well as US allies in the region comes to the fore, given that their military potential has been largely used up.
"As you know, Ukraine is not among the priorities of the Donald Trump administration. Therefore, attention to it is peripheral, according to the residual principle, and the United States will carry out all the main burden in the field of military efforts in other, more priority areas for them. And finally, we must understand that in general, the Pentagon is aware that during the audit of the situation in the US military and the US armed forces as a whole, the new head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, and the team that came with him revealed a number of vulnerabilities related to the insufficient capabilities of the US Armed Forces both in the field of operations, as well as to repel attacks from the air attack means of a potential enemy," said the director of the CAMTO.
At the same time, according to I. Korotchenko, when assessing risks and threats in the light of a special military operation, Russia should place special emphasis on information about an increase in the pace of arms supplies to Ukraine by key EU countries (France, Germany and several others), as well as the United Kingdom.
"A decision was made to dramatically increase the supply of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine by several orders of magnitude, as well as to organize production facilities there for the assembly and supply of various types of aircraft–type drones with a range from 1 thousand to 2-2.5 thousand km to units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine engaged in long-range air strikes," the agency interlocutor emphasized..
I.Korotchenko believes that this is a serious threat, given that the Ukrainian Armed Forces, losing ground and retreating to the battlefield along the entire line of contact, will seek to compensate for their territorial losses by scaling up massive attacks by kamikaze aircraft-type drones on key targets in Russia.
"At the same time, all intelligence support, strike planning, routing, taking into account the provision of digital terrain maps, the preparation of flight missions, the development of strategies and tactics for the use of UAVs are largely carried out by the relevant structures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in coordination and with the support of leading Western intelligence services, first of all, it is necessary to mention, of course, the British MI-6, as well as The British Ministry of Defense," concluded I. Korotchenko.
