{"id":265505,"date":"2023-02-24T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T08:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265505"},"modified":"2023-02-25T06:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T06:52:34","slug":"ukraine-now-a-battle-of-logistics-nato-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265505","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine now a \u2018battle of logistics\u2019 \u2013 NATO chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT.com — Feb 23, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

With the conflict in Ukraine becoming a \u201cwar of attrition,\u201d<\/em> NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg cautioned that the West should \u201cnot underestimate\u201d<\/em> Russia\u2019s firepower advantage. Stoltenberg claimed that the Western bloc is stepping up ammo production, but was unable to define\u00a0its end goal in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Speaking to CNN\u2019s Christine Amanpour at the Munich Security Conference last weekend, Stoltenberg said that Russia has thus far been able to bring more ammunition and manpower to the frontline than Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s ammo consumption is \u201chigher than [NATO\u2019s] total production,\u201d<\/em> he continued, adding that this situation \u201ccannot continue.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo far we have depleted our stocks, but at some stage we need to get more ammunition produced,\u201d<\/em> he told Amanpour.<\/p>\n

Despite Ukraine receiving tens of millions of dollars worth of Western weapons \u2013 including nearly 1.5 million artillery shells from the US alone, Russia has held a firepower advantage since the start of its military operation last February. The Ukrainian side is currently firing between 5,000 and 6,000 artillery rounds per day, according to most Western assessments, while estimates of Russian fire have varied hugely from anywhere between 5,000 and 60,000 shells per day.<\/p>\n

Stoltenberg has repeatedly called on NATO members to step up their ammunition production to close the gap, as have other Western leaders. The EU\u2019s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said on Sunday that Ukraine\u2019s backers need to\u00a0resolve<\/a> the ammunition shortage within \u201ca matter of weeks\u201d<\/em> if Kiev is to have any chance of success on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

Since last fall, the conflict in Ukraine has \u201cmoved into a war of attrition,\u201d<\/em> Stoltenberg said, adding that a \u201cwar of attrition is a battle of logistics; as in how do you get enough stuff \u2013 materiel, spare parts, ammunition, fuel \u2013 to the front lines.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

While Stoltenberg was clear about the need for NATO to step up arms production, he was vague about how the US-led alliance wants the conflict to end. He told Amanpour that \u201cnobody knows how and when this war will end,\u201d<\/em> and that it will \u201cmaybe\u201d<\/em> be resolved at the negotiating table.<\/p>\n

Stoltenberg said that NATO will allow Ukraine to define what \u201cwinning\u201d<\/em> would look like, but would not directly say that he endorses Kiev\u2019s stated goal of seizing the Russian territory of Crimea.<\/p>\n

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The conflict now hinges on logistics, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and Ukraine’s ammo consumption is now \u201chigher than [NATO\u2019s] total production,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":255874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265536,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265505\/revisions\/265536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/255874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}