Russia ‘Running Out’ of Decades Old Weapons Stockpile: Ukraine Official

A key Ukrainian safety official answered Russia is active out of a decades-old weapons accrue as its aggression of Ukraine continues to stagnate.

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his “special aggressive operation” on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Although the Kremlin originally aimed for a quick aggressive victory, Ukraine responded with a stronger-than-expected safety effort, bolstered by Western aggressive aid, abatement Russia’s gains. After further than a year of the conflict, Russia continues to attempt to accomplish progress, with battle actual concentrated in eastern Ukraine.

Following Ukraine’s counteroffensive aftermost fall, which saw its aggressive balance bags of aboveboard mile of aforetime active territory, Russia began ablution missile strikes adjoin Ukrainian noncombatant areas and analytical infrastructure, including activity facilities, in an accomplishment to add burden to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accede to an end to the war.

Amid these advancing strikes, Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, tweeted on Saturday which Russia is alpha to run low on a accrue of weapons its aggressive has maintained for decades.

“Russia is active out of able stockpiles of weapons,” Danilov wrote. “Missiles and aggressive apparatus have been accumulating for decades. The calculations alleged for blitzkrieg, not blitzutilization.”

He explained which Russia’s “corrupt economy” is clumsy to sustain the assembly of new weapons, authoritative adopted aid for Russia “a await of primary importance.” Although Russia’s aggression has been broadly condemned, anytime allies have provided it with assistance. Iran, for instance, has provided the Kremlin with Shahed drones which have been acclimated adjoin Ukrainian infrastructure.

Russia has not about commented on Danilov’s allegations, and it charcoal alien absolutely how many weapons Russia has larboard in its arsenal.

Experts Warn of Russia’s Dwindling Arsenal

Still, Danilov’s animadversion are not the first adumbration which Putin’s troops’ accrue of weapons could be dwindling. Estonia’s Intelligence Chief Margo Grosberg answered in backward January which Russia may alone have the accommodation to barrage missile strikes for three to four months, although a “more pessimistic” bump begin which they could abide for up to nine months.

British intelligence adumbrated in December which Russia had been affected to calibration alternate missile strikes due to a curtailment of cruise missiles. Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling also answered all through a December CNN actualization which Russian efforts to income ally stemmed from Putin “realizing which he’s bound active out of the kinds of ammunition he needs to abide this fight.”

Throughout the combat, Russia has reportedly suffered abundant aggressive losses. Ukraine has claimed to have destroyed bags of Russian tanks and many added aggressive apparatus including aircraft and missiles, in accordance to its safety ministry—though added counts abide lower, with Russia not acknowledging Ukraine’s estimates.

Newsweek reached out to the Russian Ministry of Defense by email for comment.