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| 'Using up a Week's Worth in 20 Hours': Ukrainian troops are fast running out of weapons; Germany and France fail to send promised military aid |
| 2022-03-23 |
[TheTimes] Ukraine has said it is fast running out of the weapons it needs to destroy Russian aircraft and tanks and urged Germany and France to honour their pledges and send more arms.
The defending forces are far surpassing western expectations by stalling the Russians’ advance and preventing them from taking key cities.
Western officials said that Ukraine was “obviously expending a lot of ordnance”, and more than anticipated. They had expected to be supporting a more limited insurgency by this stage.
The Pentagon said that Ukraine had begun to shift momentum in some areas to regain ground and were “in places and at times going on an offensive”.
Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, told friends last week that the military had “two weeks” before
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