OTTAWA — There will be many prayers offered up this Christmas that the guns fall silent across Ukraine in the New Year.
But let’s hope that any peace is prompted by Russia’s realization that it cannot win, rather than because the Ukrainians have run out of ammunition.
The latter is a very real prospect. As retired Australian Major Gen. Mick Ryan wrote last week in an influential Twitter thread: “In 2023, the Ukrainian army may run out of munitions before it runs out of fight. Based on current usage of ammunition in the war, production of munitions is increasingly lagging battlefield needs.”
#Ukraine: A Ukrainian 9A310M1 TELAR of the Buk-M1 air-defense system was destroyed by a Russian Lancet loitering munition in Oleksandrivka, #Kherson Oblast. pic.twitter.com/8bI8tl2FRl
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) December 20, 2022
