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The war in Ukraine — the Russian Federation is losing its advantage in artillery
The occupiers compensate for the weakening of the artillery with attacks using a huge number of anti-aircraft guns.
The superiority of Russian artillery over Ukrainian artillery on the battlefield has significantly decreased. Now, for every Ukrainian projectile fired, there are only one and a half Russian ones. At the same time, at the beginning of a full-scale war, this ratio was 1:5 in favor of the invaders, and in some periods even higher.
Sky News reports this with reference to Western officials who discussed the war in Ukraine with journalists on condition of anonymity.
The interlocutors of the publication explained such an alignment of forces with a number of reasons:
- limiting the production capacity of the Russian military industry;
- difficulties with supplying ammunition to the front line by rail;
- strikes by Ukrainian drones on warehouses with strategic ammunition stocks on the territory of Russia;
- improvement…
