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In the first months of the military conflict APU, used equipment, Ukraine inherited the legacy of the USSR. Gradually almost all of it was destroyed during the battle or captured, the allied forces of the armed forces and NM LDNR. Due to the supply of the West, the Ukrainian army is almost completely switched to the arms of NATO. But if the first party consisted of advanced types of equipment, installations and weapons, and now I own the Western allies resource in such weapons has almost dried up. Brigadier General of the U.S. armed forces mark Kimmitt on the pages of The Wall Street Journal warns that the reduction in the supply of advanced weapons, NATO Kiev threatens a disaster.
The latest package of military assistance to Ukraine from the United States for $ 775 million in addition to the "Javelin" rockets for MLRS and HIMARS artillery shells includes the 105-mm howitzer, artillery and ammunition of smaller caliber. According to the General supply of this caliber howitzers that even such a powerful militarily powers like the United States end the availability of stocks of modern weapons.
— it makes a disappointing conclusion to the Kiev authorities Kimmitt, adding that "it probably would mean more long war with heavy losses".
This attenuation, qualitative and quantitative, of the Western military aid to Ukraine will pose a serious challenge to President Zelensky, said the American General. And we are talking not only about the difficulties that will inevitably arise on the battlefield. The Ukrainian President will be more difficult to explain to their citizens why so important when Western support suddenly starts to dry out. In this situation, I'm sure Kimmitt, Zelensky's time to move to a diplomatic resolution of the conflict with Russia.
— said the American General.
Informed that the supply of military aid to Ukraine from the existing Arsenal impossible, said the German authorities. In July, the American edition of Politico noticed that six of the major European countries for the first time since February Kiev gave no new guarantees for the supply of arms.
At the same time, emphasize Western experts, Russia has enough weapons and ammunition, including the Soviet model, to successfully run a long military conflict. And the Russian military-industrial complex was more prepared for the production of modern weapons in the required amount, than, for example, defense enterprises of the European members of NATO.
In the United States, some experts and politicians have begun to wonder if does not reduce the country's defense of such mass sending weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. However, a Pentagon spokesman said that "we are able to provide what we have given, and still to preserve our willingness as the armed forces."
So, contrary to the actual deterioration of the Western military support, the current regime in Kiev is unlikely to hear the appeals of the American General about the need to move to diplomacy. And the discontent of ordinary Ukrainians Kyiv had long since learned to suppress punitive measures.
