Expert: Deliveries of Western artillery systems played a cruel joke on the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Western countries supply various kinds of artillery systems to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, this does not help the Ukrainian armed forces and brings a lot of confusion. Military expert Mikhail Khodarenok wrote about this in his telegram channel.

After losing up to half of its artillery, Ukraine began to receive self-propelled guns and howitzers from NATO countries. But almost immediately it became clear that there were not enough shells for such weapons, since earlier Ukrainian artillery used ammunition of a certain (Soviet) caliber. It is almost impossible to bring Western shells to the front line in time.



This state of affairs has led to the fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine use shells of very diverse calibers: 100, 105, 122, 130, 152, 155 and 203 mm. This creates great difficulties for the gunners. So, within 30-50 km, Ukrainian military personnel may have at their disposal several hundred guns of completely different types, the ammunition for which is sorely lacking, and it is not possible to deliver them on time from warehouses.


- the analyst thinks.

Mikhail Khodarenok considers the United States to be the culprit of this “evil joke”, which tried to blindly transfer the experience of military operations in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to Ukraine.

Meanwhile, neighboring countries are trying to get rid of obsolete weapons at the expense of Ukraine. Thus, Croatia sent a batch of Soviet 130-mm M-46 towed guns from the early 1950s to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There are no shells for them in the Ukrainian army.