{"id":285313,"date":"2024-04-12T07:35:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T07:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=285313"},"modified":"2024-04-14T07:08:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T07:08:02","slug":"ukraine-will-soon-be-outgunned-without-help-top-europe-general-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=285313","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine will soon be outgunned without help, top Europe general says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tara Copp AP \u2013 Navy Times Apr 11, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The top general for U.S. forces in Europe told Congress Wednesday that\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0will be outgunned 10 to 1 by Russia within a matter of weeks if Congress does not find a way to\u00a0approve sending more<\/a>\u00a0ammunition and weapons to Kyiv soon.<\/p>\n

The testimony from Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, head of U.S. European Command, and Celeste Wallander, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, comes as Congress enters pivotal weeks for voting for aid for Ukraine, but there\u2019s no guarantee funding will be improved in time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are now being outshot by the Russian side 5 to 1. So the Russians fire five times as many artillery shells at the Ukrainians than the Ukrainians are able to fire back. That will immediately go to 10 to 1 in a matter of weeks,\u201d Cavoli said. \u201cWe\u2019re not talking about months. We\u2019re not talking hypothetically.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has been trying to find a way forward for the bill that would fund new rounds of munitions production at U.S. firms to enable the Pentagon to then rush more munitions to Ukraine. Johnson is trying to bring it to the floor for a House vote, but he is facing concerns from members who cite domestic needs, including\u00a0border security<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The speaker is also facing\u00a0a threat to his leadership role<\/a>\u00a0from his far-right flank by Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who has called for his ouster over the issue.<\/p>\n

While the political battles on Capitol Hill continue, the dire battlefield situation in Ukraine worsens.<\/p>\n

Cavoli told the lawmakers that in this conflict, the U.S. flow of 155mm artillery shells has been a lifeline. \u201cThe biggest killer on the battlefield is artillery. In most conflicts, but in this one definitely. And should Ukraine run out, they would run out because we stopped supplying \u2014 because we supply the lion\u2019s share of that,\u201d Cavoli said.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s own production of missiles has ramped up and can launch large-scale attacks every few days. If Ukraine\u2019s air defense stocks run out, \u201cthose attacks would absolutely cripple the economy, and the civil society as well as the military of Ukraine if they were not defended against without a U.S. provision of interceptors,\u201d Cavoli said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir ability to defend their terrain that they currently hold and their airspace would fade rapidly, will fade rapidly without the supplemental,\u201d Cavoli said.<\/p>\n

U.S. Army leaders offered similar dire warnings to the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee later in the day, saying that the lack of the supplemental is a critical problem for both Ukraine and the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe side that can\u2019t shoot back, loses, and at this point Ukraine is really starting to be pressed to be able to shoot back. So I am very concerned,\u201d said Army Secretary Christine Wormuth. \u201cWe saw Ukraine lose some territory a couple of months ago. And I think there is a real danger \u2026 that the Russians could have a breakthrough somewhere in the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gen. Randy George, chief of staff of the Army added that the funding is needed to help send Ukraine long-range weapons and air defense systems so they can defend their critical infrastructure and their troops on the front lines.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Wormuth and Gen. Randy George, chief of staff of the Army, said that unless Congress approves the supplemental soon, the Army won\u2019t have enough money to bring home the troops currently serving in Europe, or funding to train units in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have the transportation money to have them redeploy,\u201d said Wormuth, referring to Army units that are deployed across Europe. \u201cWe don\u2019t have the transportation money to send units to backfill them.\u201d<\/p>\n

She and George said they also need the money to continue sending units to the national training centers. to avoid outright cancellation of the training rotations, Wormuth said they can try to reduce participation or shrink their size.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut those are the kinds of hard choices we\u2019re looking at. If we don\u2019t see the supplementals come across,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

If Kyiv falls, it could imperil Ukraine\u2019s Baltic NATO member neighbors and potentially drag U.S. troops into a prolonged European war.<\/p>\n

At a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday, Johnson said: \u201cHouse members are continuing to actively discuss our options on a path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very complicated matter at a very complicated time. The clock is ticking on it, and everyone here feels the urgency of that, but what\u2019s required is that you reach consensus on it, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working on,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Michigan Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin urged a vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaker Johnson has a choice to make. I accept that it\u2019s a complicated choice. I accept that he\u2019s at risk of losing his job over that choice,\u201d Slotkin said.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The top general for U.S. forces in Europe says that right now the Russians are firing FIVE times more artillery rounds than the Ukrainians. However, Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli says that unless the U.S. provides help, the Russians will soon be firing TEN times more shells <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":264707,"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-285313","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\/285313","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=285313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285314,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285313\/revisions\/285314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}