William Molinié 09:04, February 14, 2023

The Russian army continues its offensive in the south-east of Ukraine, thus putting Ukrainian and Western industrial capacities to the test.

According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Ukraine consumes more ammunition than the countries of the military organization can produce.

The war in Ukraine raises the question of production capacity in NATO member countries.

A subject that will be widely discussed this Tuesday at a meeting of Alliance Defense Ministers.

Its secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, acknowledged on Monday that the current rate of ammunition use by Ukrainian forces is much higher than the rate of production.

The Russians have indeed returned to this war of attrition, a war of attrition in military parlance.

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kyiv fires 150,000 shells every month

The Russians fire on average between 10,000 and 20,000 shells every day.

For their part, the Ukrainians defend themselves with a little less than 5,000 shells daily, which still consumes 150,000 shells each month and this is already beyond the annual production capacity of the defense industry. French.

Even the Pentagon is caught out.

The Americans have initiated the passage from 15,000 shells produced each month to 90,000.

But despite this effort, it is only 60% of what is fired monthly by kyiv, which inevitably raises questions of capacity and credibility in the face of the thickness of the Russian army.

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French parliamentarians have also considered these subjects of armament reserves.

They must also make public on Wednesday a long-awaited report on the level of ammunition stocks within the French armies.