Exclusive: Deputy head of military intelligence says it’s an artillery war now and ‘everything depends on what the west gives us’
Ukraine’s deputy head of military intelligence has saidis losing against Russia on the frontlines and is now almost solely reliant on weapons from the west to keep Russia at bay.
Ukraine is using 5,000 to 6,000 artillery rounds a day, according to Skibitsky. “We have almost used up all of our [artillery] ammunition and are now using 155-calibre Nato standard shells,” he said of the ammunition that is fired from artillery pieces.runs out, the amount is getting smaller.” In the first month, Russia was constantly striking Ukraine with rockets but in the last two months it has slowed. Recent figures published by theRockets are expensive to manufacture. Each rocket can cost anywhere between a few hundred thousand dollars to several million.
The sound of sirens has become a daily feature for Ukrainians. Sirens regularly sound in multiple regions simultaneously but most of the time, for people on the ground, it passes without a bang. According to Skibitsky, each siren signals a rocket has entered Ukrainian airspace but its impact is not always reported for security reasons.
In north-east Ukraine, around Kharkiv, he said Russian forces were focusing on defence after Ukraine’s counteroffensive pushed them out of several towns and villages in the region in May.
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