Specialists calculated how many shells Ukraine spends per day
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The scale of hostilities can be compared with the period of the Second World War
The intensity of fighting in Ukraine is ten times higher than in Afghanistan. There, the alliance forces could fire 300 artillery rounds per day.
The US government knows that the country does not have enough capacity to manufacture artillery shells to meet the needs of Ukraine, on whose territory intensive operations continue. He writes about this on Friday, December 23 Washington Post.
The publication notes that the US is now capable of producing 14,000 howitzer shells per month, but Ukraine earns that much in two days.
“The US can now produce about 14,000 155-mm howitzer shells per month,” US Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said in a comment.
According to her, the United States plans to increase the production of artillery ammunition.
As the newspaper writes, Washington is also trying to encourage the participants to more fully disclose their stocks and increase their own industrial capacity in order to take on part of the European obligations to provide Ukraine with weapons.
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